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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

Sri Lanka, 2016
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LKA_2016_GSHS_v01_M
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Epidemiology Unit, Colombo
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Initiation of cigarette use (Q28)

Data file: 2016LKA

Overview

Valid: 3095
Invalid: 167
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 6 questions ask about cigarette and other tobacco use.
Literal question
How old were you when you first tried a cigarette?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never smoked cigarettes 2906
93.9%
2 7 years old or younger 24
0.8%
3 8 or 9 years old 31
1%
4 10 or 11 years old 20
0.6%
5 12 or 13 years old 27
0.9%
6 14 or 15 years old 56
1.8%
7 16 or 17 years old 31
1%
8 18 years old or older 0
0%
Sysmiss 167
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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