Table 3

Correlates of consumption of illicit trade

VariableCategoryMarginal effectSE
GenderMale (base)
Female
−0.00040.0024
Age0.0004*0.0002
EducationNone/elementary/middle school (base)
High school/associate degrees0.00560.0044
Bachelor/master degree−0.00440.0037
OccupationWorker (base)
Unemployed
0.01250.0122
Retired/disabled/other0.02930.0318
Student0.0635*0.0288
Housekeeper0.01410.0149
Smoking intensity<0.0001<0.0001
Age of smoking initiation−0.00010.0003
CityBogotá (base)
Medellín
−0.0040†0.0022
Cartagena−0.00210.0036
Cúcuta0.0619‡0.0181
Cali0.0009*0.0004
  • Marginal effects of probit estimates based on DEICS-COL-2016. Estimates from 1678 observations, less than the sample size because of missing values in age of initiation. Age, age of initiation and smoking intensity included linear and squared terms. Marginal effects calculated at the mean of covariates. Heteroskedasticity-robust SEs in the last column.

  • *At 5%.

  • †At 10%.

  • ‡Denotes significance at 1%.

  • COL, Colombia; DEICS, Demand for Illicit Cigarettes  Survey.