Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

Suriname, 2016

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SUR_2016_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

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Serious injury type (Q18)

Data file: 2016SUR

Overview

Valid: 1849

Invalid: 277

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	1369	74%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	73	3.9%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	132	7.1%
4	Concussion/head injury	31	1.7%
5	I had a gunshot wound	8	0.4%
6	I had a bad burn	17	0.9%
7	I was poisoned	4	0.2%
8	Something else happened to me	215	11.6%
Sysmiss		277

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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