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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Cook Islands, 2015
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COK_2015_GSHS_v01
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Ministry of Health
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Global School-based Student Health Survey
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Initiation of cigarette use (Q28)

Data file: 2015COK_public_use

Overview

Valid: 680
Invalid: 21
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 6 questions ask about cigarette and other tobacco use.
Literal question
How old were you when you first tried a cigarette?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 I have never smoked cigarettes 349
51.3%
2 7 years old or younger 66
9.7%
3 8 or 9 years old 64
9.4%
4 10 or 11 years old 50
7.4%
5 12 or 13 years old 61
9%
6 14 or 15 years old 50
7.4%
7 16 or 17 years old 31
4.6%
8 18 years old or older 9
1.3%
Sysmiss 21
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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