This site uses cookies

Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used.

For more detailed information please check our Cookie notice.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality. This website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookies that measure website use

If you provide permission, we will use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on our understanding of user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.

 

Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Health Survey for England, 2015

Variable Details

VariableStartSmk
LabelAge when started smoking
Question text How old were you when you started to smoke cigarettes regularly?
Responses
5 1
7 5
8 9
9 14
10 40
11 74
12 87
13 183
14 371
15 509
16 586
17 362
18 455
19 166
20 189
21 113
22 65
23 37
24 34
25 80
26 14
27 7
28 17
29 5
30 42
31 2
32 1
33 5
34 3
35 14
36 4
37 3
38 6
39 1
40 10
41 2
44 1
45 6
46 1
48 2
50 1
51 1
55 2
97 Never smoked regularly 10
-9 Refused 1
-8 Don't know 14
-1 Not applicable 10193
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationHealth Survey for England, 2015
Interviewer InstructionsIF ‘Never smoked regularly’ CODE 97.
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Adults (aged 16 and over) and children (aged 0-15 years) in the general population, living in private households in England during 2015.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The survey is conducted annually.
UKRI logo

Funded by UKRI through the ESRC with contributions from our partners.

© 2024 UK Data Service
We are supported by the University of Essex, University of Manchester, Jisc, UCL and University of Edinburgh. We are funded by UKRI through the Economic and Social Research Council.