Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Mauritius, 2017

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Reference ID

MUS_2017_GSHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health

Metadata

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Mar 19, 2024

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Serious injury motor vehicle (Q19)

Data file: MUBH2017_GSHS_Data_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2633

Invalid: 379

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	1991	75.6%
2	Motor vehicle accident	45	1.7%
3	I fell	234	8.9%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	68	2.6%
5	I was attacked	32	1.2%
6	Was in a fire	8	0.3%
7	breathed something bad	7	0.3%
8	Something else	248	9.4%
Sysmiss		379

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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