Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2004

Guyana, 2004

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GUY_2004_GSHS_v01

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PAHO/WHO Guyana

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Aug 07, 2018

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (q17)

Data file: GYH2004_public_use

Overview

Valid: 876

Invalid: 336

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 5 questions ask about the most serious injury that happened to you during the past 12 months. 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	602	68.7%
2	Motor vehicle accident	23	2.6%
3	I fell	80	9.1%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	23	2.6%
5	I was fighting with someone	17	1.9%
6	Attacked or assaulted	13	1.5%
7	Was in a fire	6	0.7%
8	Something else	112	12.8%
Sysmiss		336

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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