Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2015

Sri Lanka, 2015

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Reference ID

LKA_2015_GYTS_v01

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Ministry of Health

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Global Youth Tobacco Survey

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Nov 16, 2018

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May 02, 2019

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age tried bidi (BR2)

Data file: SRILANKA_15

Overview

Valid: 1499

Invalid: 6

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

How old were you when you first tried smoking a bidi?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never tried smoking a bidi	1452	96.9%
2	7 years old or younger	9	0.6%
3	8 or 9 years old	5	0.3%
4	10 or 11 years old	6	0.4%
5	12 or 13 years old	17	1.1%
6	14 or 15 years old	9	0.6%
7	16 years old or older	1	0.1%
Sysmiss		6

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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