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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2005

Senegal, 2005
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SEN_2005_GSHS_v01
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Ministry of Health and Medical Prevention
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Global School-based Student Health Survey
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Age first tried cigarette (Q28)

Data file: SEN2005_public_use

Overview

Valid: 3042
Invalid: 112
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 33
End: 33
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 7
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 2686
88.3%
2 7 years old or younger 22
0.7%
3 8 or 9 years old 17
0.6%
4 10 or 11 years old 54
1.8%
5 12 or 13 years old 103
3.4%
6 14 or 15 years old 158
5.2%
7 16 years old or older 2
0.1%
Sysmiss 112
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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