Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2010

Jamaica, 2010

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JAM_2010_GSHS_v01

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National Council on Drug Abuse

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Sep 27, 2018

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: JAM2010_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1398

Invalid: 225

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 24

End: 24

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	800	57.2%
2	Motor vehicle accident	58	4.1%
3	I fell	138	9.9%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	70	5%
5	I was attacked	71	5.1%
6	Was in a fire	32	2.3%
7	breathed something bad	14	1%
8	Something else	215	15.4%
Sysmiss		225

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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