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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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q17)

Data file: LKA2008_public_use

Overview

Valid: 2440

Invalid: 171

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 24

End: 24

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 was the major cause of the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1685	69.1%
2	Motor vehicle accident	72	3%
3	I fell	383	15.7%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	102	4.2%
5	I was fighting with someone	22	0.9%
6	Attacked or assaulted	20	0.8%
7	Was in a fire	11	0.5%
8	Something else	145	5.9%
Sysmiss		171

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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