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Table 3 Relationship between age and deprivation (D) and substance use for each sex: %

From: Associations of social and material deprivation with tobacco, alcohol, and psychotropic drug use, and gender: a population-based study

 

Men (2,959 subjects)

Women (3,257 subjects)

 

≤29

30–39

40–49

50–59

60–69

≥70

p-value

≤29

30–39

40–49

50–59

60–69

≥70

p-value

No. of subjects

637

645

528

373

428

348

 

799

655

491

391

487

434

 

Deprivation

              

Low educational level

10.1

15.2

22.7

29.0

44.2

58.0

<0.001

8.8

16.5

30.5

44.5

56.5

61.7

<0.001

Manual worker

20.4

35.6

29.4

28.2

25.2

20.1

<0.001

6.4

9.9

12.4

9.0

12.3

8.8

0.002

Low perceived income

11.9

9.6

11.2

9.9

3.7

2.6

<0.001

10.9

9.3

13.9

8.4

4.3

5.3

<0.001

Living alone

10.1

7.9

5.9

5.1

6.5

10.1

0.012

9.4

7.0

4.1

13.0

22.6

42.6

<0.001

Unemployed

5.0

3.4

2.5

5.9

0.2

-

<0.001

7.3

5.5

5.3

5.9

1.4

-

<0.001

Foreign nationality

2.4

2.0

2.1

2.7

2.6

3.4

0.79

1.8

1.7

0.8

3.1

1.9

2.3

0.24

Not home-owner

56.4

48.7

31.2

22.8

18.0

26.2

<0.001

61.2

46.7

31.0

28.4

24.2

36.2

<0.001

D score

      

<0.001

      

<0.001

D = 1

39.3

37.0

31.2

32.7

31.3

42.0

 

42.5

38.9

31.4

37.6

42.7

38.7

 

D = 2

23.7

22.0

18.0

15.3

21.0

23.8

 

21.3

16.3

18.5

18.9

24.8

32.0

 

D ≥ 3

9.1

12.6

11.4

11.3

8.6

9.8

 

6.4

7.9

9.0

11.3

9.9

16.4

 

Tobacco use

37.1

41.2

38.1

23.6

15.0

11.2

<0.001

34.7

36.0

21.4

12.0

7.2

3.0

<0.001

Alcohol abuse

11.0

11.8

15.9

16.6

10.8

8.9

0.003

3.9

4.0

5.1

3.1

1.4

1.4

0.004

Frequent use of psychotropic drugs

21.5

23.7

25.2

23.3

22.0

28.4

0.19

42.2

36.0

41.3

43.2

41.1

43.5

0.10

  1. Age was related to D with p < 0.001.