Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Jamaica, 2017

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Reference ID

JAM_2017_GSHS_v01

Producer(s)

National Council on Drug Abuse

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Feb 13, 2020

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Smoking cessation (Q31)

Data file: JMH2017_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 1559

Invalid: 108

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 6 questions ask about cigarette and other tobacco use.

Literal question

During the past 12 months, have you ever tried to stop smoking cigarettes?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never smoked cigarettes	1068	68.5%
2	Did not smoke cigarettes	252	16.2%
3	Yes	145	9.3%
4	No	94	6%
Sysmiss		108

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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