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 motor vehicle (Q19)

Data file: KWT2015_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 3180

Invalid: 457

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	1930	60.7%
2	Motor vehicle accident	102	3.2%
3	I fell	260	8.2%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	139	4.4%
5	I was attacked	109	3.4%
6	Was in a fire	40	1.3%
7	breathed something bad	37	1.2%
8	Something else	563	17.7%
Sysmiss		457

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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