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 cause (Q19)

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 major cause of the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1039	69.7%
2	Motor vehicle accident	30	2%
3	I fell	99	6.6%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	45	3%
5	I was attacked	43	2.9%
6	Was in a fire	11	0.7%
7	breathed something bad	15	1%
8	Something else	209	14%
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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