Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2008

Sri Lanka, 2008

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Reference ID

LKA_2008_GSHS_v01

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Aug 09, 2018

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May 03, 2019

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Number close friends (Q27)

Data file: LKA2008_public_use

Overview

Valid: 2579

Invalid: 32

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 34

End: 34

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 6 questions ask about your feelings and friendships.

Literal question

How many close friends do you have?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	0	150	5.8%
2	1	402	15.6%
3	2	513	19.9%
4	3 or more	1514	58.7%
Sysmiss		32

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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