Swiss Health Survey 2022: Smoking Behaviors by Migration Background

Swiss national data from 19,441 participants in the 2022 Swiss Health Survey. The dataset was analyzed by Kris Schürch to examine associations between migration background and current smoking, with results published in April 2026. It likely contains sociodemographic variables and smoking status for cross-sectional analysis.

Use Cases

• Modeling smoking risk factors based on migration background and sociodemographic covariates mentioned in the description
• Conducting stratified subgroup analysis based on age, sex, and education levels described in the study
• Benchmarking smoking prevalence for equity-oriented tobacco control policy development as discussed in the conclusion

Strengths

• Data from 19,441 participants in a national, official survey
• Results include specific odds ratios (e.g., OR=1.75 for 2nd+ generation migrants)
• Analysis is stratified by key social factors: sex, age, and education

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The primary data file is a 38.1 KB DOCX document, suggesting a small, summary-level dataset rather than raw records

Provenance

Source

2022 Swiss Health Survey, an official national cross-sectional dataset

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey analysis using multivariable logistic regression

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 05:01:13; freshness should be verified

Geography

Switzerland