Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Seychelles, 2015

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SYC_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: SYC2015_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2382

Invalid: 158

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	1470	61.7%
2	7 years old or younger	125	5.2%
3	8 or 9 years old	104	4.4%
4	10 or 11 years old	161	6.8%
5	12 or 13 years old	282	11.8%
6	14 or 15 years old	217	9.1%
7	16 or 17 years old	23	1%
8	18 years old or older	0	0%
Sysmiss		158

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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