Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Lao PDR, 2015

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LAO_2015_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

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Serious injury broken bone (Q18)

Data file: LAO2015_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 3504

Invalid: 179

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	3221	91.9%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	48	1.4%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	41	1.2%
4	Concussion/head injury	28	0.8%
5	I had a gunshot wound	2	0.1%
6	I had a bad burn	2	0.1%
7	I was poisoned	2	0.1%
8	Something else happened to me	160	4.6%
Sysmiss		179

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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