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Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003

Mauritius, 2003
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MUS_2003_GYTS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health and Quality of Life
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Reason started smoking (MUR3)

Data file: MUS2003 national

Overview

Valid: 2014
Invalid: 12
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: 1 - 7
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never smoked cigarettes 1436
71.3%
2 pressure from friends 152
7.5%
3 influence of the media (films, advertisement, etc) 16
0.8%
4 to imitate members of the family 28
1.4%
5 desire to experiment 354
17.6%
6 to appear grown-up 10
0.5%
7 to appear fashionable 18
0.9%
Sysmiss 12
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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