Home / Central Data Catalog / GSHS / LAO_2015_GSHS_V01 / variable [F1]
GSHS

Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Lao People's Democratic Republic, 2015
Get Microdata
Reference ID
LAO_2015_GSHS_v01
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health
Collections
Global School-based Student Health Survey
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jun 13, 2019
Last modified
Jun 13, 2019
Page views
20802
Downloads
1360

Initiation of drug use (Q40)

Data file: LAO2015_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 3634
Invalid: 49
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 4 questions ask about drug use. This includes using marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, inhalants, and COUNTRY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.
Literal question
How old were you when you first used drugs?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never used drugs 3561
98%
2 7 years old or younger 11
0.3%
3 8 or 9 years old 5
0.1%
4 10 or 11 years old 5
0.1%
5 12 or 13 years old 14
0.4%
6 14 or 15 years old 25
0.7%
7 16 or 17 years old 13
0.4%
8 18 years old or older 0
0%
Sysmiss 49
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.
Back to Catalog