Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2013

El Salvador, 2013

Get Microdata

Reference ID

SLV_2013_GSHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

May 08, 2024

Last modified

May 08, 2024

Page views

2186

Downloads

179

What was serious injury past 12 mo. (Q18)

Data file: SLV2013_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1799

Invalid: 116

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	1349	75%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	116	6.4%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	36	2%
4	Concussion/head injury	27	1.5%
5	I had a gunshot wound	4	0.2%
6	I had a bad burn	19	1.1%
7	I was poisoned	16	0.9%
8	Something else happened to me	232	12.9%
Sysmiss		116

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.

Back to Catalog