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Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2015

Philippines, 2015
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PHL_2015_GSHS_v01
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Global School-based Student Health Survey
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Initiation of cigarette use (Q28)

Data file: PHL2015-Visayas

Overview

Valid: 2882
Invalid: 192
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 8
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 2204
76.5%
2 7 years old or younger 69
2.4%
3 8 or 9 years old 60
2.1%
4 10 or 11 years old 96
3.3%
5 12 or 13 years old 167
5.8%
6 14 or 15 years old 194
6.7%
7 16 or 17 years old 80
2.8%
8 18 years old or older 12
0.4%
Sysmiss 192
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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