Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Tonga, 2017

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TON_2017_GSHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health

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Serious injury cause (Q19)

Data file: TON2017

Overview

Valid: 3154

Invalid: 179

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 major cause of the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	2060	65.3%
2	Motor vehicle accident	98	3.1%
3	I fell	434	13.8%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	171	5.4%
5	I was attacked	83	2.6%
6	Was in a fire	50	1.6%
7	breathed something bad	16	0.5%
8	Something else	242	7.7%
Sysmiss		179

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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