Summary statistics of the price distribution of cigarettes by International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation (ITC) countries with different tax structures
| Tax structure* | Specific | Mixed | ad valorem | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tax structure† | Uniform | Tiered | Uniform | Tiered | Uniform | Tiered | ||||||||||
| Country | AU | CA | MU | US | UY | KR | BR | NL | MY | UK | DE | MX | FR | RC | TH | BD |
| Mean | 6.52 | 5.41 | 5.65 | 4.49 | 2.75 | 3.10 | 2.24 | 5.62 | 4.79 | 7.49 | 5.29 | 4.36 | 5.13 | 1.98 | 3.02 | 1.42 |
| Median | 6.44 | 5.69 | 5.54 | 4.37 | 3.18 | 3.13 | 1.98 | 5.73 | 5.17 | 7.75 | 5.58 | 4.33 | 5.37 | 1.51 | 2.78 | 1.41 |
| SD | 1.00 | 1.78 | 0.89 | 1.62 | 1.06 | 0.78 | 1.40 | 0.94 | 1.34 | 2.00 | 1.20 | 1.24 | 1.17 | 1.55 | 0.92 | 0.86 |
| Skewness | −0.44 | −0.42 | 0.75 | 1.37 | −0.31 | 8.24 | 5.21 | −0.07 | −0.96 | −0.29 | −1.17 | 1.51 | −0.82 | 3.61 | 0.19 | 2.01 |
| Q1 | 5.85 | 4.42 | 4.99 | 3.55 | 1.85 | 3.13 | 1.65 | 5.20 | 4.34 | 6.93 | 4.90 | 3.65 | 5.15 | 1.13 | 2.28 | 0.70 |
| Q3 | 7.18 | 6.56 | 5.54 | 5.24 | 3.70 | 3.13 | 2.44 | 5.97 | 5.50 | 8.73 | 6.08 | 4.33 | 5.82 | 2.47 | 3.70 | 1.93 |
| IQR=Q3−Q1 | 1.33 | 2.13 | 0.55 | 1.70 | 1.85 | 0 | 0.79 | 0.77 | 1.16 | 1.81 | 1.18 | 0.68 | 0.67 | 1.35 | 1.42 | 1.23 |
| IQR/median | 0.21 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 0.39 | 0.58 | 0 | 0.40 | 0.13 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.89 | 0.51 | 0.87 |
| Minimum | 0.68 | 0.40 | 1.11 | 0.50 | 0.34 | 1.50 | 0.66 | 1.05 | 0.52 | 0.37 | 0.12 | 0.91 | 0.67 | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.04 |
| Maximum | 12.4 | 13.3 | 11.1 | 19.4 | 5.29 | 12.5 | 13.2 | 12.6 | 11.5 | 19.6 | 7.75 | 11.4 | 12.6 | 17.6 | 6.17 | 10.5 |
| Maximum–Minimum | 11.7 | 12.9 | 9.97 | 18.9 | 4.95 | 11.0 | 12.6 | 11.6 | 11.0 | 19.3 | 7.63 | 10.5 | 11.9 | 17.6 | 5.98 | 10.5 |
| Maximum–Minimum/mean | 1.79 | 2.38 | 1.76 | 4.21 | 1.80 | 3.55 | 5.63 | 2.06 | 2.30 | 2.58 | 1.44 | 2.41 | 2.32 | 8.87 | 1.98 | 7.39 |
| Specific taxes | 4.27 | 3.67 | 2.45 | 2.41 | 2.00 | 1.65 | 0.52 | 2.27 | 1.15 | 3.11 | 1.95 | 0.80 | 0.36 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 |
| Ad valorem taxes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.10 | 0.70 | 1.97 | 1.44 | 1.49 | 3.44 | 0.54 | 1.98 | 0.45 |
| Total taxes | 4.27 | 3.67 | 2.45 | 2.41 | 2.00 | 1.65 | 0.52 | 3.37 | 2.25 | 5.08 | 3.39 | 2.29 | 3.80 | 0.56 | 1.98 | 0.45 |
| % specific of total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 67.3 | 62.1 | 61.2 | 57.5 | 34.9 | 9.42 | 2.94 | 0 | 0 |
Prices and taxes are in 2010 constant international dollars. Country names in the column headers are presented using ISO 3166 two letter country codes as follows: AU (Australia), CA (Canada), MU (Mauritius), US (the USA), UY (Uruguay), KR (Republic of Korea), BR (Brazil), NL (The Netherlands), MY (Malaysia), UK (the UK), DE (Germany), MX (Mexico), FR (France), RC (China), TH (Thailand), and BD (Bangladesh). Cigarette price is the consumption-weighted price derived from price per carton, price per pack, price per stick and the number of cigarettes in each carton or pack. The total excise taxes are a sum of specific and ad valorem excises, and exclusive of VAT.
*Tax structures were grouped to three categories: specific, ad valorem and a mixed structure of the two.
†Tax structures were grouped to two categories: uniform and tiered.