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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

French Polynesia, 2015
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PYF_2015_GSHS_v01_M
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Centre de consultations specialisees en hygiene et sante scolaire (CCSHSS)
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Initiation of cigarette use (q28)

Data file: pyf2015

Overview

Valid: 3140
Invalid: 76
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 10
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 6 questions ask about cigarette and other tobacco use.
Literal question
How old were you when you first tried a cigarette?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never smoked cigarettes 1809
57.6%
2 7 years old or younger 112
3.6%
3 8 or 9 years old 120
3.8%
4 10 or 11 years old 213
6.8%
5 12 or 13 years old 356
11.3%
6 14 or 15 years old 394
12.5%
7 16 or 17 years old 121
3.9%
8 18 years old or older 15
0.5%
Sysmiss 76
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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