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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Sierra Leone, 2017
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SLE_2017_GSHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health and Sanitation
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Age first had sex (Q45)

Data file: SLEH2017_GSHS_Data_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2556
Invalid: 242
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 5 questions ask about sexual intercourse.
Literal question
How old were you when you had sexual intercourse for the first time?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Never had sex 1814
71%
2 11 years old or younger 160
6.3%
3 12 years old 88
3.4%
4 13 years old 82
3.2%
5 14 years old 108
4.2%
6 15 years old 96
3.8%
7 16 or 17 years old 167
6.5%
8 18 years old or older 41
1.6%
Sysmiss 242
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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