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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

United Arab Emirates, 2016
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ARE_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: ARE2016 (Private Schools)

Overview

Valid: 2839
Invalid: 123
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 2218
78.1%
2 7 years old or younger 111
3.9%
3 8 or 9 years old 86
3%
4 10 or 11 years old 71
2.5%
5 12 or 13 years old 160
5.6%
6 14 or 15 years old 138
4.9%
7 16 or 17 years old 49
1.7%
8 18 years old or older 6
0.2%
Sysmiss 123
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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