Prevalence of current tobacco use among adolescents

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Indicator name: 
 Prevalence of current tobacco use among adolescents 
Data type: 
 Percent 
Indicator Id: 
 5372 

                            Topic:
                        

                                Risk factors
                            

Rationale:

Prevalence rates from youth surveys can be used to gauge the future prospects for tobacco use in a country.

Definition:

Current users of any tobacco product are defined as those that consume any smokeless or smoking tobacco product either daily or occasionally, usually with reference to the 30 days prior to the survey. Numerator: Number of school going adolescents of a specified are range who report having use tobacco either daily or occasionally. Denominator: Total number of school-going adolescents of this specified age range.

Disaggregation:

Sex

Method of estimation:

Country reported data.

Unit of Measure:

Percent

Expected frequency of data dissemination:

Continuous

Comments:

For more information on the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, see https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/global/gtss/gtssdata/index.html

Links:

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/global/gtss/gtssdata/index.html

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