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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Nepal, 2015
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NPL_2015_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: npl2015

Overview

Valid: 6208
Invalid: 321
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 10
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 5640
90.9%
2 7 years old or younger 157
2.5%
3 8 or 9 years old 85
1.4%
4 10 or 11 years old 79
1.3%
5 12 or 13 years old 109
1.8%
6 14 or 15 years old 102
1.6%
7 16 or 17 years old 34
0.5%
8 18 years old or older 2
0%
Sysmiss 321
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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