Indicator 3.a.1 - Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older
Percentage of US population aged 18 and over who are daily smokers
Percentage of US population aged 18 and over who are daily smokers
Global Metadata
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| SDG Indicator Name | Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older |
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| SDG Target Addressed | Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate. |
| Definition of SDG Indicator | Age_standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 18+ years. 'Smoked tobacco products' include the consumption of cigarettes, bidis, cigars, cheroots, pipes, shisha (water pipes), fine_cut smoking articles (roll_your_own), krekets, and any other form of smoked tobacco. "Smokeless tobacco" includes moist snuff, plug, creamy snuff, dissolvables, dry snuff, gul, loose leaf, red tooth powder, snus, chimo, gutkha, khaini, gudakhu, zarda, quiwam, dohra, tuibur, nasway, naas/naswar, shammah, betel quid, toombak, pan (betel quid), iq'mik, mishri, tapkeer, tombol and any other tobacco product that is sniffed, held in the mouth, or chewed. |
| UN Designated Tier | 1 |
| UN Custodial Agency | WHO, WHO-FCTC |
U.S. Metadata
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| Method of computation for global SDG indicator | Number of current tobacco users aged 18+ years. "Current users" include both daily and non_daily users of smoked or smokeless tobacco / All respondents of the survey aged 18+ years Method of estimation Number of respondents aged 18+ years currently using any tobacco product (smoked or smokeless)/(number of survey respondents aged 18+ years) x 100. |
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| Graph Title | Percentage of US population aged 18 and over who are daily smokers |
| Actual indicator available | Daily smoking prevalence among the US population aged 18 years and older |
| Description of actual indicator available | Percentage of US population aged 18 and over who are daily smokers |
| Method of computation | Percentage of persons who are daily smokers is based on responses to two questions from the National Health Interview Survey: “Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your entire life?” and “Do you now smoke cigarettes every day, some days, or not at all?” Daily smokers are adults who have smoked 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke every day. Percentages are generated using samplinng survey weights to make nationally representative population estimates. |
| Comments and limitations | |
| Periodicity | Annual |
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| Disaggregation #1 (Industry or social categories) | |
| Disaggregation #2 (Geographical coverage) | |
| Date of public data release from National source | June 2016 |
| Date of last Update of This Page | December 2016 |
| Scheduled Update by National source | |
| Scheduled Update by SDG Team | |
| Data Source1 (Agency STAFF NAME) | Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics |
| Data Source2 (Staff E-MAIL) | CSchoenborn@cdc.gov |
| Data Source3 (Agency/Survey/Dataset name) | National Center for Health Statistics/National Health Interview Survey |
| Indicator web address (closest to data provided) | http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/data-questionnaires-documentation.htm |
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