Vaping - understanding prevalence and trends among adults and children: research

Footnotes

1. SHeS (Scotland 2021) – 5% current use ; STS (Scotland Oct 2022) – 13.2% current use; ASH SmokeFree GB survey (GB 2022) – 8.3% current use; Health Survey for England (2021) – 5% current use; Opinion and Lifestyle Survey (UK 2020/21) – 7.7% current use; Understanding Society (UK 2020/21) – 5.12% current use.

2. Some caution is required in directly comparing the Health and Wellbeing Census with SALSUS – see Appendix.

3. Please note that this is a small sample – 95% Cl: (12.8, 20.9) for 16-24 cohort and (6.6, 10.4) for 55-64 cohort. Data by age group for Scotland are unpublished and have been kindly provided by the STS team.

4. Results from SHeS 2021 need to be interpreted with caution due to changes in data collection methods and in the samples deriving from the Covid pandemic. The adoption of an opt-in approach resulted in a lower proportion of respondents among those living in the most deprived areas and in the youngest age group than in previous survey years.

5. 2021 data is presented in a Table at E-cigarette use in Great Britain - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk). Trend 2014 to 2020 is available in the report at Smoking prevalence in the UK and the impact of data collection changes - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk).

6. These data are unpublished and have been kindly provided by the Understanding Society team.

7. Results from SHeS 2021 need to be interpreted with caution due to changes in data collection methods and in the samples deriving from the Covid pandemic. The adoption of an opt-in approach resulted in a lower proportion of respondents among those living in the most deprived areas and in the youngest age group than in previous survey years.

8. These data are unpublished and have been kindly provided by the Understanding Society team.

9. Please note that this is a small sample - 95% Cl: (4.7, 7.7) for AB and (9.0,14.9) for E. Data by social grade for Scotland are unpublished and have been kindly provided by the STS team.

10. These data are unpublished and have been kindly provided by the Understanding Society team.

11. Data from the Census are not weighted to be nationally representative and include data from 16 of Scotland's 32 Local Authorities. Response rate decreased with stages, particularly for S4-S6.

12. Referred to as current use in this survey but the measure is 'once per week or more', which is referred to as regular use in other surveys.

13. These data are unpublished and have been kindly provided by the Understanding Society team.

14. Question wording kindly provided by the STS research team.

15. This has not changed since 2015. The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) 2015: questionnaire - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) can be accessed on the Scottish Government website.