Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

Benin, 2016

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BEN_2016_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Jan 13, 2020

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Serious injury broken bone (q18)

Data file: ben2016

Overview

Valid: 2288

Invalid: 248

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about serious injuries that happened to you. An injury is serious when it makes you miss at least one full day of usual activities (such as school, sports, or a job) or requires treatment by a doctor or nurse.

Literal question

During the past 12 months, what was the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1664	72.7%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	206	9%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	58	2.5%
4	Concussion/head injury	60	2.6%
5	I had a gunshot wound	75	3.3%
6	I had a bad burn	44	1.9%
7	I was poisoned	4	0.2%
8	Something else happened to me	177	7.7%
Sysmiss		248

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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