Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2016

Vanuatu, 2016

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Reference ID

VUT_2016_GSHS_v01

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Initiation of cigarette use (Q28)

Data file: VUH2016_GSHS_Data_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1912

Invalid: 247

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	1334	69.8%
2	7 years old or younger	56	2.9%
3	8 or 9 years old	21	1.1%
4	10 or 11 years old	36	1.9%
5	12 or 13 years old	93	4.9%
6	14 or 15 years old	209	10.9%
7	16 or 17 years old	146	7.6%
8	18 years old or older	17	0.9%
Sysmiss		247

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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