'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 2 Smoking prevalence and number of smokers among male resettlers and men 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	32.0	123	40.4	19	31.2	58	30.0	36	35.1	3848	0.52
	25-44	38.3	425	44.2	42	41.6	200	34.7	149	35.5	12239	0.02
	45-64	30.8	239	37.9	22	36.0	105	25.0	100	28.7	7520	<0.01
	≥ 65	12.8	22	-	-*	-	-*	12.8	17	10.6	1111	0.86
	total	33.1	809	41.0	84	37.1	366	27.9	302	30.1	24718	<0.01
Low level of education	18-24	52.1	174	50.0	23	53.8	121	48.9	23	58.2	2645	0.22
	25-44	52.6	478	63.0	63	53.4	241	46.3	133	51.8	8725	0.04
	45-64	41.8	391	50.0	33	44.2	168	39.6	180	35.7	8923	<0.01
	≥ 65	13.2	88	-	-*	12.0	22	13.5	60	14.3	3478	0.89
	total	39.7	1131	50.8	123	44.6	552	32.1	396	33.6	23771	<0.01
Both educational levels combined	18-24	41.4	298	44.7	42	43.6	179	35.7	60	41.9	6518	0.40
	25-44	44.7	906	54.0	107	47.1	442	39.3	282	40.9	21024	<0.01
	45-64	36.9	636	44.0	55	40.9	277	32.8	282	32.1	16510	<0.01
	≥ 65	13.2	111	14.3	5	11.8	25	13.5	78	13.2	4619	0.95
	total	36.7	1951	46.2	209	41.3	923	30.2	702	31.7	48671	<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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