Description

For female persons ages 18 to 49 who have given live birth in the last five years, SMOKESTATUSPS3 is a recoded variable indicating the respondent's current smoking status in categories of: current every day smoker, current some day smoker ((1 or more days, past month), current some day smoker (0 days, past month), current some day smoker (unknown days in the past month) and also indicates former smoker, never smoked and "has smoked, current smoking status unknown." Respondents were asked a cascade of 3 questions: whether they smoked 100 cigarettes; if they answered yes, then they were asked whether they smoked some days, every day or not at all; if yes, then they were asked how many days they smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days. Please use IPUMS NHIS search function and drop down menus for related variables.

Comparability

There are no comparability issues with this variable.

Universe

Availability

• 1991

Weights

• 1991 : PERWEIGHT