Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Jamaica, 2017

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Reference ID

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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Initiation of cigarette use (Q28)

Data file: JMH2017_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 1562

Invalid: 105

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	971	62.2%
2	7 years old or younger	94	6%
3	8 or 9 years old	81	5.2%
4	10 or 11 years old	115	7.4%
5	12 or 13 years old	144	9.2%
6	14 or 15 years old	116	7.4%
7	16 or 17 years old	39	2.5%
8	18 years old or older	2	0.1%
Sysmiss		105

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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