Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003

Mauritius, 2003

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Reference ID

MUS_2003_GYTS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Quality of Life

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Reason started smoking (MUR3)

Data file: MUS2003 Rodrigues

Overview

Valid: 768

Invalid: 1

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never smoked cigarettes	347	45.2%
2	pressure from friends	36	4.7%
3	influence of the media (films, advertisement, etc)	11	1.4%
4	to imitate members of the family	17	2.2%
5	desire to experiment	338	44%
6	to appear grown-up	7	0.9%
7	to appear fashionable	12	1.6%
Sysmiss		1

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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