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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PE attendance (Q51)

Data file: 2016LKA

Overview

Valid: 3217

Invalid: 45

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about physical activity. Physical activity is any activity that increases your heart rate and makes you breathe hard. Physical activity can be done in sports, playing with friends, or walking to school. Some examples of physical activity are running, fast walking, biking, dancing, football, and COUNTRY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.

Literal question

During this school year, on how many days did you go to physical education (PE) class each week?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	0 days	993	30.9%
2	1 day	428	13.3%
3	2 days	474	14.7%
4	3 days	339	10.5%
5	4 days	207	6.4%
6	5 or more days	776	24.1%
Sysmiss		45

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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