DDI_MMR_2007_GSPS_v01_M_WB Development Economics Data Group 2015-07-15 NADA Version 01 (July 2015) Global School Personnel Survey 2007 GSPS 2007 MMR_2007_GSPS_v01_M World Health Organization Ministry of Education NADA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention TFI/WHOSEARO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) Other Household Survey [hh/oth] Myanmar as a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control had adopted the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Products Law in 2006 which came into effect in May, 2007. Ministry of Health has been implementing tobacco control activities in collaboration with related ministries; school-based tobacco control activities are being conducted in coordination with the Ministry of Education. Myanmar conducted Global School Personnel Surveys (GSPS) in 2004 and 2007. - v01: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution. The 2007 Myanmar Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) is a survey of all administrators and teachers in the schools participating in the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). The GSPS produces representative data which can be used for crosssectional estimates for teachers and administrators in Myanmar. Myanmar National Sample survey data [ssd] The study includes data on: Prevalence of cigarette smoking, Use of other tobacco products both smoking and smokeless (eg. Cheroots, cigars, pipes, chewing betel with tobacco, chewing raw tobacco etc), School policies which prohibit use of tobacco, and Tobacco related curricula. Face-to-face [f2f] The Myanmar GSPS questionnaire was self-administered in the schools. School and personnel anonymity was maintained throughout the GSPS process. The Myanmar country-specific questionnaires included data on prevalence of cigarette smoking, and use of other tobacco products both smoking and smokeless (eg. Cheroots, cigars, pipes, chewing betel with tobacco, chewing raw tobacco etc), school policies which prohibit use of tobacco, and tobacco related curricula. The final questionnaire was translated into local language Myanmar for administration. SUDAAN, a software package for statistical analysis correlated data, was used to compute standard errors of the estimates and produced 95% confidence intervals which are shown as lower and upper bounds. Difference in proportions were considered statistically significant at the p<0.05 level. The 2007 Myanmar GSPS, 2,460 school personnel participated; 90.9% of them are teachers, 4.1% are clerical staff , 2.4% are administrators/headmasters and the remaining belong to other category. About 8 in ten are females (84.8%). The school response rate was 100% and the response rate of the school personnel was 90.34%; the overall response rate was 90.34%. Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include: - the Identification of the Primary Investigator - the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation) - the survey reference number - the source and date of download Example: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Education, World Health Organization. Myammar Global School Personnel Survey (GSPS) 2007, Ref. MMR_2007_GSPS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [url] on [date]. The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.