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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Jamaica, 2017
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JAM_2017_GSHS_v01_M
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National Council on Drug Abuse
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Serious injury type (Q18)

Data file: JMH2017_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 1491
Invalid: 176
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 3 questions ask about serious injuries that happened to you. An injury is serious when it makes you miss at least one full day of usual activities (such as school, sports, or a job) or requires treatment by a doctor or nurse.
Literal question
During the past 12 months, what was the most serious injury that happened to you?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Not seriously injured 1062
71.2%
2 Broken bone/dislocated joint 60
4%
3 I had a cut or stab wound 119
8%
4 Concussion/head injury 48
3.2%
5 I had a gunshot wound 7
0.5%
6 I had a bad burn 42
2.8%
7 I was poisoned 10
0.7%
8 Something else happened to me 143
9.6%
Sysmiss 176
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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