Dataset: U.S. Tobacco Use Data

About this Dataset

U.S. Tobacco Use Data

Prevalence and Trends by State

About this dataset

This dataset provides insight into the prevalence and trends in tobacco use across the United States. By breaking down this data by state, you can see how tobacco has been used and changed over time. Smoking is a major contributor to premature deaths and health complications, so understanding historic usage rates can help us analyze and hopefully reduce those negative impacts. Drawing from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, this dataset gives us an unparalleled look at both current and historical smoking habits in each of our states. With this data, we can identify high risk areas and track changes throughout the years for better health outcomes overall

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How to use the dataset

This dataset contains information on the prevalence and trends of tobacco use in the United States. The data is broken down by state, and includes percentages of smokers, former smokers, and those who have never smoked. With this dataset you can explore how smoking habits have changed over time as well as what regions of the country have seen more or less consistent smoking trends.

To begin using this dataset, you will first want to familiarize yourself with the columns included within it and their associated values. There is a “State” column that provides the US state for which each row refers to; there are also columns detailing percentages for those who smoke every day (Smoke Everyday), some days (Smoke Some Days), previously smoked (Former Smoker) and those who have never smoked (Never Smoked). The “Location 1” column indicates each geographic region that falls into one of either four US census divisions or eight regions based upon where each state lies in relation to one another.

Once you understand the data presented within these columns, there are a few different ways to begin exploring how tobacco use has changed throughout time including plotting prevalence data over different periods such as decades or specific years; compiling descriptive statistics such as percentiles or mean values; contrasting between states based on any relevant factors such as urban/rural population size or economic/political standing; and lastly looking at patterns developing throughout multiple years via various visualisations like box-and-whisker plots amongst other alternatives.

This wide set of possibilities makes this dataset interesting enough regardless if you are looking at regional differences across single points in time or long-term changes regarding national strategies around reducing nicotine consumption. With all its nuances uncovered hopefully your results can lead towards further research uncovering any aspect about smoking culture you may find fascinating!

Research Ideas

Comparing regional and state-level smoking rates and trends over time.

Analyzing how different demographics are affected by state-level smoking trends, such as comparing gender or age-based differences in prevalence and/or decreasing or increasing rates of tobacco use at the regional level over time.

Developing visualization maps that show changes in tobacco consumption prevalence (and related health risk factors) by location on an interactive website or tool for public consumption of data insights from this dataset

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
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License

License: Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0

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Columns

File: BRFSS_Prevalence_and_Trends_Data__Tobacco_Use_-_Four_Level_Smoking_Data_for_1995-2010.csv

Column name	Description
Year	Year of the data (Integer)
State	Name of the state (String)
Smoke everyday	Percentage of people who smoke every day (Float)
Smoke some days	Percentage of people who smoke some days (Float)
Former smoker	Percentage of people who used to smoke (Float)
Never smoked	Percentage of people who have never smoked (Float)
Location 1	Location of the state (String)

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors.
If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Health.

Tables

Brfss Prevalence And Trends Data Tobacco Use Four Leve Da23c34b

@kaggle.thedevastator_u_s_tobacco_use_data_1995_2010.brfss_prevalence_and_trends_data_tobacco_use_four_leve_da23c34b

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876 rows
8 columns


CREATE TABLE brfss_prevalence_and_trends_data_tobacco_use_four_leve_da23c34b (
  "index" BIGINT,
  "year" BIGINT,
  "state" VARCHAR,
  "smoke_everyday" VARCHAR,
  "smoke_some_days" VARCHAR,
  "former_smoker" VARCHAR,
  "never_smoked" VARCHAR,
  "location_1" VARCHAR
);