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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Jamaica, 2017
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JAM_2017_GSHS_v01
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National Council on Drug Abuse
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Global School-based Student Health Survey
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Spent three or more hours per day doing sitting activities (QN52)

Data file: JMH2017_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 1599
Invalid: 68
Mean: 1.438
Standard deviation: 0.496
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Percentage of students who spent three or more hours per day doing sitting activities (sitting and watching television, playing computer games, talking with friends when not in school or doing homework during a typical or usual day)
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 898
56.2%
2 701
43.8%
Sysmiss 68
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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