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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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Current marijuana use (Q42)

Data file: JMH2017_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 1550
Invalid: 117
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 5
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
The next 4 questions ask about drug use. This includes using marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, inhalants, and COUNTRY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.
Literal question
During the past 30 days, how many times have you used marijuana (also called COUNTRY SPECIFIC SLANG TERMS FOR MARIJUANA)?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 0 times 1352
87.2%
2 1 or 2 times 93
6%
3 3 to 9 times 46
3%
4 10 to 19 times 16
1%
5 20 or more times 43
2.8%
Sysmiss 117
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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