Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2008

Sri Lanka, 2008

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Reference ID

LKA_2008_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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How many times per day brush teeth (Q9)

Data file: LKA2008_public_use

Overview

Valid: 2583

Invalid: 28

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 16

End: 16

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 4 questions ask about cleaning your teeth and washing your hands.

Literal question

During the past 30 days, how many times per day did you usually clean or brush your teeth?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Did not brush my teeth	60	2.3%
2	Less than 1 time per day	64	2.5%
3	1 time per day	774	30%
4	2 times per day	1181	45.7%
5	3 times per day	333	12.9%
6	4 or more times per day	171	6.6%
Sysmiss		28

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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