Table 2

Calendar year- and gender-specific numbers of study subjects and crude smoking rate (%) by education and occupational class: 147,805 South Korean men and women aged 25–64 from 1999, 2003, 2006 Social Statistics Survey


1999
2003
2006





N (%)
Crude smoking rate
N (%)
Crude smoking rate
N (%)
Crude smoking rate

Men (total)
23896 (100.0)
69.9
24495 (100.0)
58.7
23402 (100.0)
55.4
Occupational class






     Non-manual
6224 (26.1)
64.0
7215 (29.5)
52.8
7017 (30.0)
48.9
     Manual
14149 (59.2)
73.4
13992 (57.1)
62.2
13062 (55.8)
59.3
     Others
3523 (14.7)
66.4
3288 (13.4)
56.6
3323 (14.2)
54.2
Education






     College or higher
7437 (31.1)
64.1
9047 (36.9)
53.5
9425 (40.3)
50.9
     High school
10371 (43.4)
74.2
10182 (41.6)
63.7
9476 (40.5)
60.5
     Middle school or less
6088 (25.5)
69.7
5266 (21.5)
58.1
4501 (19.2)
54.4

Women (total)
24669 (100.0)
3.2
26121 (100.0)
2.9
25222 (100.0)
3.2
Occupational class






     Non-manual
2716 (11.0)
1.8
3950 (15.1)
1.4
4574 (18.1)
1.7
     Manual
11212 (45.5)
4.1
10789 (41.3)
3.4
10132 (40.2)
4.2
     Others
10741 (43.5)
2.6
11382 (43.6)
3.0
10516 (41.7)
3.0
Education






     College or higher
4080 (16.5)
1.5
6033 (23.1)
1.4
6829 (27.1)
1.6
     High school
9762 (39.6)
2.7
10732 (41.1)
3.2
10462 (41.5)
3.7
     Middle school or less
10827 (43.9)
4.2
9356 (35.8)
3.6
7931 (31.4)
4.0

Khang et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:66   doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-66