Table 3 Sociodemographics of the cannabis user types (n = 1223)
Total (n = 1223) | Neither recreational nor medicinal (N = 102) | Only recreational (N = 503) | Both recreational and medicinal (N = 186) | PNAa recreational, no medicinal (N = 432) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Age (in years) ** | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | |||
18–20 | 32.38 (396) | 40.20 (41) | 29.82 (150) | 19.89 (37) | 38.89 (168) | |||
21–24 | 67.62 (827) | 59.8 (61) | 70.18 (353) | 80.11 (149) | 61.11 (264) | |||
Gender ** | ||||||||
Female | 39.98 (489) | 49.02 (50) | 29.23 (147) | 24.73 (46) | 56.94 (246) | |||
Male | 58.71 (718) | 50.98 (52) | 68.79 (346) | 74.19 (138) | 42.13 (182) | |||
Prefer not to answerb | 1.31 (16) | 0 (0) | 1.98 (10) | 1.08 (2) | 0.93 (4) | |||
Nationality * | ||||||||
Lebanese | 98.38 (1154) | 94.95 (94) | 98.76 (479) | 96.68 (175) | 99.51 (406) | |||
Non-Lebanese | 1.62 (19) | 5.05 (5) | 1.24 (6) | 3.32 (6) | 0.49 (2) | |||
Country of residence for most of young adult life | ||||||||
Lebanon | 98.23 (1110) | 98.98 (97) | 98.07 (457) | 97.63 (165) | 98.49 (391) | |||
Other | 1.77 (20) | 1.02 (1) | 1.93 (9) | 2.37 (4) | 1.51 (6) | |||
Current student status** | ||||||||
Not a student | 24.12 (288) | 17.17 (17) | 31.25 (155) | 38.07(67) | 11.58 (49) | |||
Student full-/part-time | 75.88 (906) | 82.83 (82) | 68.75 (332) | 61.93 (109) | 88.42 (374) | |||
Highest level of education | ||||||||
Secondary/high school | 21.94 (256) | 26.26 (26) | 20.54 (99) | 17.05 (30) | 24.63 (101) | |||
Some university no degree | 22.28 (260) | 21.21 (21) | 20.33 (98) | 27.27 (48) | 22.68 (93) | |||
Bachelor’s degree | 44.64 (521) | 40.40 (40) | 46.68 (225) | 44.89 (79) | 43.17 (177) | |||
Master’s/MD PhD | 11.14 (130) | 12.13 (12) | 12.45 (60) | 10.7 (19) | 9.52 (39) | |||
Current job status ** | ||||||||
Working | 32.1 (381) | 27.55 (27) | 37.2 (183) | 46.93 (84) | 20.81 (87) | |||
Not working | 67.9 (806) | 72.45 (71) | 62.8 (309) | 53.07 (95) | 79.19 (331) | |||
Living arrangement ** | ||||||||
With family member | 89.13 (1074) | 92 (92) | 86.9 (431) | 80.87 (148) | 94.6 (403) | |||
Others (including alone, friends, and roommates) | 10.87 (131) | 8 (8) | 13.1 (65) | 19.13 (35) | 5.4 (23) | |||
Perceived SES ** | ||||||||
Little/LOT poorer than most | 14.97 (176) | 21 (21) | 15.07 (74) | 21.67 (39) | 10.37 (42) | |||
About the same than most | 52.55 (618) | 55 (55) | 47.86 (235) | 46.67 (84) | 60.25 (244) | |||
Little/LOT richer than most | 32.48 (382) | 24 (24) | 37.06 (182) | 31.66 (57) | 29.38 (119) | |||