Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2013

El Salvador, 2013

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SLV_2013_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: SLV2013_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1741

Invalid: 174

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	1282	73.6%
2	Motor vehicle accident	20	1.1%
3	I fell	207	11.9%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	41	2.4%
5	I was attacked	16	0.9%
6	Was in a fire	11	0.6%
7	breathed something bad	11	0.6%
8	Something else	153	8.8%
Sysmiss		174

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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