Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2017

Trinidad and Tobago, 2017

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TTO_2017_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: TTO2017 Trinidad

Overview

Valid: 2683

Invalid: 153

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	2012	75%
2	7 years old or younger	126	4.7%
3	8 or 9 years old	92	3.4%
4	10 or 11 years old	104	3.9%
5	12 or 13 years old	183	6.8%
6	14 or 15 years old	131	4.9%
7	16 or 17 years old	35	1.3%
8	18 years old or older	0	0%
Sysmiss		153

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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