Percentage of smokers’ cigarette packs showing evidence of possible tax avoidance or evasion: Mauritius, Uruguay, China and Bangladesh
| Mauritius | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wave 1 (January–March 2005) | Wave 2 (August 2006–June 2007) | Wave 3 (January–August 2008) | ||||
| Source of information | Pack | Self-report | Pack | Self-report | Pack | Self-report |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| No tax stamps or authenticity labels | 11.0 | 16.6 | 7.6 | 10.2 | 3.1 | 1.7 |
| Don't know | 0.8 | 10.6 | 0.2 | 17.2 | 0.1 | 17.8 |
| n | 210 | 388 | 335 | 218 | 305 | 230 |
| Uruguay | ||||||
| Wave 1 (October–December 2006) | Wave 2 (October 2008–February 2009) | Wave 3 (October 2010–January 2011) | ||||
| Non-standard warning labels | 6.4 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 5.1 | 12.0*** | 5.1 |
| No warning labels | 4.6 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 8.5*** | 5.6 |
| Don't know | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 3.4*** | 3.7*** |
| n | 305 | 426 | 361 | 137 | 765 | 459 |
| China | ||||||
| Wave 1 (March–December 2006) | Wave 2 (October 2007–February 2008) | Wave 3 (May 2009–March 2010) | ||||
| No authenticity labels | 10.7 | 8.5 | 13.4* | 7.2 | 6.3*** | 7.2 |
| Don't know | 10.3 | 0.2 | 5.8*** | 0.2 | 2.5*** | 8.9*** |
| n | 2308 | 1089 | 2455 | 817 | 2553 | 1191 |
| Bangladesh | ||||||
| Wave 1 (February–May 2009) | Wave 2 (March–June 2010) | |||||
| No tax stamps | 0.4 | NA | 3.7** | NA | ||
| n | 368 | NA | 401 | NA | ||
n Represents the total number of valid responses per item (ie, the denominator). *, ** and ***: significant difference at 5%, 1% and 0.1% with previous time period. These should be interpreted with great caution as the number of comparisons is absurdly high.
NA, not applicable.