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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How often went hungry (Q6)

Data file: 2016LKA

Overview

Valid: 3246

Invalid: 16

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about your height, weight, and going hungry.

Literal question

During the past 30 days, how often did you go hungry because there was not enough food in your home?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never	2331	71.8%
2	Rarely	415	12.8%
3	Sometimes	399	12.3%
4	Most of the time	36	1.1%
5	Always	65	2%
Sysmiss		16

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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