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Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2009

India, 2009
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IND_2009_GYTS_v01
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age first smokeless tobacco (INR19)

Data file: INDIA_09

Overview

Valid: 11741
Invalid: 27
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: 1 - 7
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How old were you when you first tried chewing or applying or snuff tobacco? (This includes chewing tobacco such as tobacco leaf, tobacco leaf and lime-khaini/ sada/ surti, gutka, panmasala with zarda or pan with zarda; applying tobacco such as gul, gudaku
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never used chewing or applying or snuff tobacco 10725
91.3%
2 7 years old or younger 304
2.6%
3 8 or 9 years old 162
1.4%
4 10 or 11 years old 308
2.6%
5 12 or 13 years old 160
1.4%
6 14 or 15 years old 49
0.4%
7 16 years old or older 33
0.3%
Sysmiss 27
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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