Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2011

Mauritius, 2011

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Reference ID

MUS_2011_GSHS_v01

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Age first tried cigarette (Q28)

Data file: MUS2011_Rodrigues_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1070

Invalid: 66

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 6 questions ask about cigarette and other tobacco use.

Literal question

How old were you when you first tried a cigarette?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never smoked cigarettes	744	69.5%
2	7 years old or younger	66	6.2%
3	8 or 9 years old	46	4.3%
4	10 or 11 years old	51	4.8%
5	12 or 13 years old	84	7.9%
6	14 or 15 years old	70	6.5%
7	16 years old or older	9	0.8%
Sysmiss		66

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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