ASSAD Attitude to tanning, by sex
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Commentary
Since 1996, the proportion of secondary students surveyed reporting that they like to get a suntan has significantly declined from 77.2% to 50.6% in 2017.
Between 1996 and 2017, the proportion of younger students aged 12-15 years reporting that they like to get a suntan has significantly decreased from 75.6% to 46.7%, respectively. Similarly, the proportion of older students aged 16-17 years reporting that they like to get a suntan has also significantly decreased over the same period (1996: 80.6%; 2017: 58.9%).
Please note that this indicator was updated in 2022 and replaces all previous versions.
For the purpose of reporting the Australian Secondary Students' Alcohol and Drug survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.
Chart
Attitude to tanning, ACT Secondary Students aged 12-17 years, by sex, 1996-2017
Data
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Codes and sources
A copy of the Australian Secondary Students' Alcohol and Drug survey can be found in Data collections.