Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2013

Costa Rica, 2013

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Reference ID

CRI_2013_GYTS_v01

Producer(s)

Institute of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, Ministry of Health

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Global Youth Tobacco Survey

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Apr 08, 2019

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May 02, 2019

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Age first cigarette (CR6)

Data file: COSTARICA_13

Overview

Valid: 3089

Invalid: 63

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next questions ask about your use of tobacco.

Literal question

How old were you when you first tried a cigarette?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never tried smoking a cigarette	2373	76.8%
2	7 years old or younger	38	1.2%
3	10 or 11 years old	40	1.3%
4	8 or 9 years old	106	3.4%
5	12 or 13 years old	254	8.2%
6	14 or 15 years old	226	7.3%
7	16 years old or older	52	1.7%
Sysmiss		63

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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