Variable Description
Name
i_smoking_status_code
en-NZ
Label
Cigarette smoking behaviour
en-NZ
Description
Cigarette smoking refers to the active smoking of one or more manufactured or hand-rolled tobacco cigarettes, from purchased or home-grown tobacco, per day, by a person aged 15 years and over.
The term ‘smoking’ refers to active smoking behaviour, that is, the intentional inhalation of tobacco smoke. Smoking does not refer to, or include, passive smoking (the unintentional inhalation of tobacco smoke).
Cigarette smoking does not include:
- the smoking of tobacco in cigars, pipes, and cigarillos
- the smoking of e-cigarettes
- the smoking of any other substances such as herbal cigarettes or marijuana
- the consumption of tobacco products by other means, such as chewing.
For classification see Aria.
en-NZRepresentation
Representation Type
Code List
Selection Style
SelectOne
Codes
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1 Regular smoker en-NZ
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2 Ex-smoker en-NZ
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3 Never smoked regularly en-NZ
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7 Response unidentifiable en-NZ
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9 Not stated en-NZ
Aggregation Method
Unspecified
Temporal
False
Geographic
False
Concept
Conceptual Variable
Concept
