Person—tobacco smoking start age, total years N[NN]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Tobacco smoking start age |
METEOR identifier: | 399292 |
Registration status: | Health!, Superseded 19/11/2015 |
Definition: | The age in years at which a person first started to smoke. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—tobacco smoking start age |
Value Domain: | Total years N[NN] |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | In this data collection, cigarette includes manufactured cigarettes, roll-your-own cigarettes, cigars, pipes and other tobacco products. |
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Comments: | The 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey includes a question on the age at which a person smoked their first full cigarette. Questions on age first smoked full cigarette can provide some insight into the pattern of drug use among younger children (DHFS 1996). |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) 2008. 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: first results. Drug Statistics Series number 20.Cat. no. PHE 98. Canberra: AIHW |
Reference documents: | AIHW 2009. From corrections to community: a set of indicators of the health of Australia's prisoners. Bulletin 75. Cat no. AUS 120. Canberra: AIHW. DHFS (Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services) 1996. National Drug Strategy Household Survey: survey report 1995 Canberra: AGPS |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Person—tobacco smoking start age, total years N[NN] Health!, Standard 19/11/2015 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Smoking status cluster Health!, Superseded 28/04/2016 Conditional obligation: Conditional on the person indicating that they have ever smoked a full cigarette. DSS specific information: In the Prisoner Health DSS 'tobacco smoking start age' refers to the age at which a person smoked their first full cigarette. This data element is included in the Prisoner Health DSS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators includes the indicator: Mean age at which prison entrants smoked their first full cigarette. |