Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2012

Ghana, 2012

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GHA_2012_GSHS_v01

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Middle Tennessee State University

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: 2012GHA_juniorhigh_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1431

Invalid: 217

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about serious injuries that happened to you. 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	705	49.3%
2	Motor vehicle accident	112	7.8%
3	I fell	230	16.1%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	162	11.3%
5	I was attacked	47	3.3%
6	Was in a fire	44	3.1%
7	breathed something bad	19	1.3%
8	Something else	112	7.8%
Sysmiss		217

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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