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Asked smoking status by a health care worker, by ethnic group
Table 10 gives an indication of the proportion of 15–64-year-olds who were asked if
they had ever been or currently were a smoker by a health care worker in the past
12 months, by ethnic group.
Table 10: Asked smoking status by a health care worker in the past 12 months,
15–64-year-old total population, by ethnic group (unadjusted prevalence)
Ethnic group Prevalence (95% CI) Estimated number
European/Other 48.2 (46.1–50.2) 1,006,100
Māori 56.3 (52.9–59.6) 192,100
Pacific 48.2 (42.8–53.7) 76,400
Asian 36.8 (32.2–41.5) 127,700
Source: 2009 New Zealand Tobacco Use Survey
Note: Total response ethnicity has been used.
After adjusting for age, 15–64-year-old European/Other and Māori were found to be
significantly more likely than all 15–64-year-olds to report that they had been asked if
they had ever been or currently were a smoker by a health care worker in the past
12 months (Figure 45). Asian people were significantly less likely to have been asked
their smoking status by a health care worker in the past 12 months than the total
15–64-year-old population.
After adjusting for age, there was found to be no significant difference between
15–64-year-old Pacific people and 15–64-year-olds in the total population in terms of
having being asked their smoking status by a health care worker in the past 12 months.
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