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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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Initiation of cigarette use (q28)

Data file: ben2016

Overview

Valid: 2377
Invalid: 159
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 10
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 2141
90.1%
2 7 years old or younger 39
1.6%
3 8 or 9 years old 26
1.1%
4 10 or 11 years old 21
0.9%
5 12 or 13 years old 31
1.3%
6 14 or 15 years old 43
1.8%
7 16 or 17 years old 42
1.8%
8 18 years old or older 34
1.4%
Sysmiss 159
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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