Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2011

Kuwait, 2011

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KWT_2011_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Feb 12, 2024

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: KWT2011_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2383

Invalid: 289

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	1611	67.6%
2	Motor vehicle accident	63	2.6%
3	I fell	175	7.3%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	101	4.2%
5	I was attacked	81	3.4%
6	Was in a fire	33	1.4%
7	breathed something bad	23	1%
8	Something else	296	12.4%
Sysmiss		289

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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