Are smokers rational addicts? Empirical evidence from the Indonesian Family Life Survey

Table 2 Descriptive statistics (mean) of smoking behavior in Indonesia.

	IFLS 1993			IFLS 1997			IFLS 2000			Pooled
	Female	Male	Total	Female	Male	Total	Female	Male	Total	Female	Male	Total
Ever-had smoking habit	0.12	0.77	0.42	0.07	0.69	0.35	0.06	0.70	0.36	0.08	0.71	0.37
Still having smoking habit	0.10	0.70	0.38	0.06	0.64	0.33	0.05	0.65	0.34	0.07	0.66	0.34
Stop smoking	0.02	0.07	0.04	0.01	0.05	0.03	0.01	0.05	0.03	0.01	0.06	0.03
Cigarettes	0.38	0.81	0.74	0.41	0.90	0.85	0.48	0.93	0.89	0.42	0.89	0.84
Self-rolled cigarettes	0.12	0.28	0.26	0.07	0.17	0.16	0.06	0.12	0.11	0.09	0.18	0.17
Chew tobacco	0.55	0.02	0.10	0.55	0.01	0.07	0.49	0.01	0.05	0.53	0.01	0.07
Smoke a pipe	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Starting smoke, age (yrs)	27.2	21.5	22.3	27.7	20.5	21.4	27.3	20.4	21.3	27.4	20.8	21.6
# cigarettes smoked/day	7.4	11.3	11.0	7.9	12.6	12.3	7.0	12.2	11.8	7.4	12.1	11.7

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