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Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2006

India, 2006
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IND_2006_GYTS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
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age first smokeless tobacco (INR19)

Data file: INDIA_06

Overview

Valid: 12076
Invalid: 10
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: 1 - 7
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How old were you when you first tried chewing or applying or snuff tobacco? (This includes chewing tobacco such as tobacco leaf, tobacco leaf and lime-khaini/ sada/ surti, gutka, panmasala with zarda or pan with zarda; applying tobacco such as gul, gudaku
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never used chewing or applying or snuff tobacco 10067
83.4%
2 7 years old or younger 423
3.5%
3 8 or 9 years old 462
3.8%
4 10 or 11 years old 412
3.4%
5 12 or 13 years old 342
2.8%
6 14 or 15 years old 282
2.3%
7 16 years old or older 88
0.7%
Sysmiss 10
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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