Household-level tobacco prevalence across regions, provinces and income groups (%)
| Panel | Indicator | Tobacco products | ||
| Cigarettes | Chewed | Any | ||
| A: Region | ||||
| Pakistan | Prevalence | 26.44 | 13.8 | 45.51 |
| Share in expenditure | 3.6 (5837) | 1.24 (4111) | 2.87 (10835) | |
| Rural | Prevalence | 27.81 | 15.62 | 48.24 |
| Share in expenditure | 3.85 (2071) | 1.25 (1743) | 3 (4123) | |
| Urban | Prevalence | 24.06 | 10.65 | 40.79 |
| Share in expenditure | 3.09 (3766) | 1.2 (2368) | 2.61(6712) | |
| B: Province | ||||
| KP | Prevalence | 10.24 | 43 | 49.86 |
| Share in expenditure | 1.76(644) | 1.13(1942) | 1.36(2400) | |
| Punjab | Prevalence | 29.28 | 5.92 | 40.19 |
| Share in expenditure | 3.4 (2857) | 1.4 (504) | 3.07 (3762) | |
| (2857) | (504) | (3762) | ||
| Sindh | Prevalence | 27.05 | 14.76 | 52.57 |
| Share in expenditure | 4.52 (1567) | 1.36 (989) | 3.34 (3286) | |
| Balochistan | Prevalence | 29.43 | 37.77 | 66.27 |
| Share in expenditure | 2.98 (769) | 0.91 (676) | 2.12 (1387) | |
| C: Income groups | ||||
| Upper 40% | Prevalence | 27.13 | 13.57 | 44.84 |
| Share in expenditure | 2.51 | 0.85 | 2.08 | |
| (2422) | (1564) | (4158) | ||
| Lower 60% | Prevalence | 26.12 | 13.91 | 45.83 |
| Share in expenditure | 4.13 | 1.41 | 3.24 | |
| (3415) | (2547) | (6677) | ||
Number of households in parentheses. Expenditure shares averaged over households who bought at least one of the tobacco products. All values are weighed using sampling weights. ‘Any’ is all tobacco products consumed by the household, including but not restricted to cigarettes and chewed.
Authors’ calculations from Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement (PSLM) 2015–2016 (HIICS) data.
HIICS, Household Integrated Income and Consumption Survey; KP, Kyber Pakhtunkhwa.