'Imported risk' or 'health transition'? Smoking prevalence among ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union by duration of stay in Germany - analysis of microcensus data

Table 1 Smoking prevalence and number of smokers among female resettlers and women from the reference population

Resettlers
	Age in years	All resettlers		Short duration of stay		Medium duration of stay		Long duration of stay		Reference population		p-values¹
		%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
High level of education	18-24	24.1	135	11.1	8	23.2	69	30.1	41	30.7	3725	<0.01
	25-44	19.0	275	14.6	19	15.9	104	23.9	122	28.3	10648	<0.01
	45-64	14.7	131	8.6	5	5.9	21	22.5	99	22.3	5874	<0.01
	≥ 65	4.7	10	0	0	-	-*	5.3	9	8.0	810	0.45
	total	17.7	551	11.9	32	14.5	195	21.5	271	24.4	21057	<0.01
Low level of education	18-24	27.4	68	14.3	5	28.0	44	33.3	12	47.7	1421	<0.01
	25-44	23.5	174	8.8	7	17.2	66	40.4	86	42.7	5755	<0.01
	45-64	14.8	136	10.8	8	7.2	26	22.2	99	26.3	7010	<0.01
	≥ 65	3.9	40	0	0	-	-*	5.7	36	5.9	2227	<0.01
	total	14.3	418	8.1	20	11.5	140	17.6	233	20.2	16413	<0.01
Both educational levels combined	18-24	25.2	204	12.1	13	24.9	114	30.8	53	34.0	5160	<0.01
	25-44	20.6	453	12.2	26	16.4	172	28.8	209	32.1	16454	<0.01
	45-64	14.7	267	9.6	13	6.5	47	22.3	198	24.3	12926	<0.01
	≥ 65	4.1	50	0	0	1.5	5	5.6	45	6.3	3048	<0.01
	total	16.1	974	9.9	52	13.2	338	19.5	505	22.4	37588	<0.01

-* = number 1 to 4
¹p-values are results of chi-square testing for differences between resettlers with different durations of stay and the reference population in each row

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