Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Liberia, 2017

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LBR_2017_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Education

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Serious injury type (Q18)

Data file: LBR2017

Overview

Valid: 2375

Invalid: 369

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	1206	50.8%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	191	8%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	321	13.5%
4	Concussion/head injury	118	5%
5	I had a gunshot wound	33	1.4%
6	I had a bad burn	65	2.7%
7	I was poisoned	30	1.3%
8	Something else happened to me	411	17.3%
Sysmiss		369

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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