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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Age first sexual intercourse (Q45)

Data file: 2012GHA_juniorhigh_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1491

Invalid: 157

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 5 questions ask about sexual intercourse.

Literal question

How old were you when you had sexual intercourse for the first time?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never had sex	1252	84%
2	11 years old or younger	85	5.7%
3	12 years old	38	2.5%
4	13 years old	28	1.9%
5	14 years old	31	2.1%
6	15 years old	27	1.8%
7	16 or 17 years old	21	1.4%
8	18 years old or older	9	0.6%
Sysmiss		157

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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