Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2011

Mauritius, 2011

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MUS_2011_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Oct 09, 2018

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: MUS2011_Rodrigues_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1005

Invalid: 131

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	661	65.8%
2	Motor vehicle accident	20	2%
3	I fell	114	11.3%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	30	3%
5	I was attacked	12	1.2%
6	Was in a fire	10	1%
7	breathed something bad	10	1%
8	Something else	148	14.7%
Sysmiss		131

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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