Share of smokers among adults describes the number of people aged 15 years and over who answered in the survey that they smoke cigarettes every day or occasionally.

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INDICATOR DESCRIPTION
Share of smokers among adults describes the number of people aged 15 years and over who answered in the survey that they smoke cigarettes every day or occasionally.

The indicator is the ratio between the number of respondents who answered the question "Do you smoke now?" with "Yes, every day" or "Yes, occasionally" and the total number of respondents who answered this question multiplied by 100.

The definition of smoking includes the proportion of people who smoke everyday (daily smokers), smoke occasionally (occasional smokers), smoke (daily and occasional smokers) and do not smoke. Smoking of electronic cigarettes and tobacco blends with marijuana is excluded.

Smokers (daily and occasional smokers) = number of people who answered that they smoke cigarettes every day or occasionally/total number of people who answered this question*100,000

UNIT
Percentage of adult population

DATA SOURCE
National institute of Public Health (NIJZ)
Publishing frequency: multiannually
Indicative date of publication: no information
Link to more data: NIJZ data portal

The data enable the display of distributions by: gender, age groups, educational attainment level, most frequent activity status

Link to methodological explanations: NIJZ methodological explanations

LAST UPDATE OF THE METADATA
20 December 2023