Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2007

Ghana, 2007

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GHA_2007_GSHS_v01

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Middle Tennessee State University

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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How injury happened past 12 mo. (Q18)

Data file: GHAH2007_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2267

Invalid: 281

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

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, how did the most serious injury happen to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1000	44.1%
2	I hurt myself by accident	475	21%
3	Someone hurt me by accident	363	16%
4	I hurt myself on purpose	234	10.3%
5	Someone hurt me on purpose	195	8.6%
Sysmiss		281

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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