Average price per stick in rands (SDs in parentheses)
| Round 1 | Round 2 | % change | |
| Overall | 1.64 (0.73) | 1.63 (0.81) | −0.74 |
| Pack type | |||
| Carton | 0.99 (0.53) | 1.00 (0.71) | 0.80 |
| Pack | 1.45 (0.60) | 1.36 (0.64) | −6.56** |
| Single | 1.74 (0.76) | 1.82 (0.86) | 4.88** |
| P value | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Township | |||
| Eldorado Park (Gauteng) | 1.68 (0.81) | 1.59 (0.85) | −5.32 |
| Ivory Park (Gauteng) | 1.92 (0.72) | 1.80 (0.91) | −6.44 |
| Khayelitsha (Western Cape) | 1.71 (0.57) | 1.57 (0.69) | −8.34** |
| Mitchell’s Plain (Western Cape) | 1.36 (0.53) | 1.21 (0.53) | −10.90*** |
| Thabong (Free State) | 1.38 (0.79) | 1.33 (0.79) | −3.74 |
| Umlazi (KwaZulu-Natal) | 1.83 (0.75) | 2.16 (0.65) | 18.09*** |
| P value | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Shop from where cigarettes were bought | |||
| Foreign-owned spaza shop† | 1.59 (0.73) | 1.50 (0.83) | −5.65** |
| SA-owned spaza shop† | 1.93 (0.79) | 2.06 (0.75) | 7.06 |
| Spaza shop (ownership unknown)† | 1.72 (0.79) | 2.17 (0.71) | 26.27* |
| Retail outlet | 1.81 (0.36) | 1.76 (0.48) | −2.69 |
| Street stand | 2.19 (0.66) | 1.67 (0.78) | −23.85 |
| House shop | 1.35 (0.80) | 1.61 (0.82) | 19.41 |
| P value | 0.00 | 0.00 |
P value from ANOVA test of difference in means of subgroups for pack type, township and shop of purchase within each round.
*p<0.01, **p<0.05 and ***p<0.001.
†Spaza shops are informal convenience shops.
ANOVA, analysis of variance; SA, South African.