Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

Sri Lanka, 2016

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LKA_2016_GSHS_v01

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Epidemiology Unit, Colombo

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Smoking cessation (Q31)

Data file: 2016LKA

Overview

Valid: 3104

Invalid: 158

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	2953	95.1%
2	Did not smoke cigarettes	36	1.2%
3	Yes	80	2.6%
4	No	35	1.1%
Sysmiss		158

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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