Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey, 2012: Annual, Household File

The Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS) has been conducted for Health Canada since 1999, and provides data on tobacco use and related issues.The survey tracks changes in smoking status, especially for populations most at risk such as the 15- to 24-year-olds. It allows Health Canada to estimate smoking prevalence by province-sex-age group, for age groups 15 to 19, 20 to 24, 25 to 34, 35 to 44 and 45 and over. This file represents the household component of the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey. Since 1999, two CTUMS files have been released every year: a file with data collected from February to June and a file with the July to December data. Additionally, there has also been a yearly summary. This process was changed for the 2011 release. There is now only an annual file released each year. The present file covers the period from February to December 2012.