{
  "alt": "Dumbbell chart with one row for each of five race and ethnicity groups and two dots per row, women's and men's smoking rates. The men's dots lie in a narrower band than the women's dots, and the distance between the two dots is smallest for White adults and largest for Hispanic adults.",
  "caption": "The men's dots fall in a narrower band than the women's dots, so the size of the gap follows the women's rates. Each dot is the weighted share of adults who smoke, and the last column gives men's rate minus women's rate in percentage points.",
  "data": [
    {
      "group": "White, non-Hispanic",
      "hi_m": 16.3696,
      "hi_w": 14.6142,
      "lo_m": 16.1348,
      "lo_w": 14.4066,
      "men": 16.2519,
      "n_m": 1553398,
      "n_w": 1898894,
      "women": 14.5101
    },
    {
      "group": "Black, non-Hispanic",
      "hi_m": 20.6081,
      "hi_w": 13.5384,
      "lo_m": 19.8401,
      "lo_w": 12.9933,
      "men": 20.2214,
      "n_m": 134857,
      "n_w": 211073,
      "women": 13.2635
    },
    {
      "group": "Other race, non-Hispanic",
      "hi_m": 13.982,
      "hi_w": 7.97249,
      "lo_m": 13.1241,
      "lo_w": 7.33637,
      "men": 13.5473,
      "n_m": 107849,
      "n_w": 107257,
      "women": 7.64837
    },
    {
      "group": "Multiracial, non-Hispanic",
      "hi_m": 22.6732,
      "hi_w": 19.3739,
      "lo_m": 21.1542,
      "lo_w": 17.8841,
      "men": 21.9042,
      "n_m": 44344,
      "n_w": 48941,
      "women": 18.6175
    },
    {
      "group": "Hispanic",
      "hi_m": 16.1097,
      "hi_w": 7.88486,
      "lo_m": 15.4198,
      "lo_w": 7.4066,
      "men": 15.7617,
      "n_m": 161479,
      "n_w": 185066,
      "women": 7.6423
    }
  ],
  "id": "smoking_gap_by_race",
  "notes": [
    "Intervals are 95% confidence intervals from the survey's stratum and primary sampling unit (design-based, Taylor linearization). No cell rests on fewer than {fact:cell_floor} respondents. The survey is a repeated cross-section of adults in the states and the District of Columbia; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are not included.",
    "Groups are those BRFSS defines: White, Black, another race and multiracial adults are non-Hispanic, and Hispanic adults may be of any race. The Hispanic and other-race groups each combine populations whose smoking differs."
  ],
  "source": "BRFSS 2014-2024 public-use files, weighted (BRFSS final weight) with design-based intervals",
  "spec": {
    "deltaLabel": "Men minus women (points)",
    "hi1": "hi_w",
    "hi2": "hi_m",
    "label1": "Women",
    "label2": "Men",
    "lo1": "lo_w",
    "lo2": "lo_m",
    "n1": "n_w",
    "n2": "n_m",
    "sort": "change-desc",
    "x1": "women",
    "x2": "men",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      30
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Adults who currently smoke (%)",
    "y": "group"
  },
  "subtitle": "Percent of adults who currently smoke by sex within five race and ethnicity groups, BRFSS 2014 to 2024, with 95% confidence intervals",
  "title": "Men smoke more than women by {fact:smoke_sexgap_white} points among non-Hispanic White adults and {fact:smoke_sexgap_hisp} among Hispanic adults",
  "type": "dumbbell"
}