Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2008

Sri Lanka, 2008

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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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Aug 09, 2018

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Doing what during injury past 12 mo. (Q16)

Data file: LKA2008_public_use

Overview

Valid: 2448

Invalid: 163

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 23

End: 23

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 5 questions ask about the most serious injury that happened to you during the past 12 months. 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 were you doing when the most serious injury happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1657	67.7%
2	Playing a sport	266	10.9%
3	Walking/running	156	6.4%
4	Riding a bicycle or scooter	129	5.3%
5	Riding/driving motor vehicle	15	0.6%
6	Doing work	115	4.7%
7	Nothing	33	1.3%
8	Something else	77	3.1%
Sysmiss		163

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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