smoking prevalence

The share of a population that smokes, normally expressed as a percentage of adults aged 15+ and split by sex.

It is the dominant measure in the tobacco catalog, carried by the World Bank SH.PRV.SMOK indicator family, Eurostat sdg_03_30 and IHME GBD prevalence estimates.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - Eurostat - Daily Smokers of Cigarettes (sdg_03_30). - World Bank API - Tobacco Smoking Indicators. - World Bank - Prevalence of Current Tobacco Use (% of adults) [SH.PRV.SMOK]. - IHME GHDx - GBD 2019 Smoking Tobacco Use Prevalence 1990-2019.

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The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and Eurostat - Daily Smokers of Cigarettes (sdg_03_30) lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open Eurostat - Daily Smokers of Cigarettes (sdg_03_30) and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
2. Open World Bank API - Tobacco Smoking Indicators and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
3. Open World Bank - Prevalence of Current Tobacco Use (% of adults) [SH.PRV.SMOK] and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.

See the term applied to real records: tobacco data.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - daily smokers of cigarettes - Global Burden of Disease - modelled estimates - sex disaggregation