Table 2

Prevalence rates of receiving quit advice from health professionals

	Weighted percentage (%)				Trend test p value
	2004	2005	2006	2007	Trend test p value
Total	21.1	26.8	28.2	27.6	<0.001
Gender
Female	14.7	20.6	21.3	19.3	0.04
Male	21.9	27.6	29.0	28.7	<0.001
Age
18–34	14.0	17.9	19.9	18.4	<0.001
35–49	19.1	26.1	25.3	25.4	<0.001
50–64	30.2	37.2	37.2	40.0	<0.001
65+	34.6	45.6	51.6	46.4	<0.001
Education
Elementary	33.4	38.6	40.7	40.2	<0.001
Middle	19.7	28.2	28.5	28.4	<0.001
High school	16.1	21.7	22.9	23.5	<0.001
College and higher	18.5	22.1	25.5	23.7	<0.001
Household monthly income
NT$≤20000	32.0	38.8	36.6	38.6	0.02
NT$20001–60000	20.1	25.7	27.3	26.2	<0.001
NT$60001–100000	19.9	20.6	25.4	23.4	0.04
NT$≥100001	21.0	22.0	27.2	22.5	0.30
Unknown	17.5	25.4	26.7	26.2	<0.001
Employment
No	24.1	35.7	35.3	33.8	<0.001
Yes	19.0	23.0	25.2	25.0	<0.001
Cigarette use
Occasional	15.3	21.5	26.4	21.5	<0.001
Daily	24.1	28.4	28.8	29.6	<0.001
Quit attempts
No	18.0	23.6	24.5	24.7	<0.001
Yes	24.6	31.0	33.1	31.2	<0.001
Perceived health
Good	18.4	22.8	25.0	24.5	<0.001
Poor	34.4	33.1	38.0	38.9	0.03
Benefit awareness
No	21.2	25.0	26.6	23.7	0.01
Yes	21.0	28.0	29.2	29.6	<0.001
Area
Taipei	18.2	26.8	27.8	27.3	<0.001
Northern	19.5	25.6	26.1	24.0	0.04
Central	21.4	26.9	27.8	27.5	0.03
Western	23.2	28.1	28.1	32.2	<0.001
Southern	24.5	26.3	31.5	27.9	0.02
Eastern	28.8	30.0	35.8	25.3	0.92

Note: 1. Using Taiwan year 2000 census as sample weights. N=5358 (2004), 4846 (2005), 5220 (2006) and 4866 (2007).
NT$, new Taiwan dollars.