Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2016

Mauritius, 2016

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Reference ID

MUS_2016_GYTS_v01

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Quality of Life

Collections

Global Youth Tobacco Survey

Metadata

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Oct 08, 2018

Last modified

May 02, 2019

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Age first cigarette (CR6)

Data file: MUS2016

Overview

Valid: 4047

Invalid: 94

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next questions ask about your use of tobacco.

Literal question

How old were you when you first tried a cigarette?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never tried smoking a cigarette	2912	72%
2	7 years old or younger	94	2.3%
3	10 or 11 years old	92	2.3%
4	8 or 9 years old	182	4.5%
5	12 or 13 years old	407	10.1%
6	14 or 15 years old	310	7.7%
7	16 years old or older	50	1.2%
Sysmiss		94

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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