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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Kuwait, 2015
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KWT_2015_GSHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health
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Serious injury broken bone (Q18)

Data file: KWT2015_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 3182
Invalid: 455
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 most serious injury that happened to you?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Not seriously injured 1909
60%
2 Broken bone/dislocated joint 297
9.3%
3 I had a cut or stab wound 156
4.9%
4 Concussion/head injury 83
2.6%
5 I had a gunshot wound 29
0.9%
6 I had a bad burn 52
1.6%
7 I was poisoned 61
1.9%
8 Something else happened to me 595
18.7%
Sysmiss 455
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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