Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2007

Trinidad and Tobago, 2007

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TTO_2007_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Tobago House of Assembly

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Sep 14, 2018

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q17)

Data file: TTH2007_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2710

Invalid: 259

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 22

End: 22

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 5 questions ask about the most serious injury that happened to you during the past 12 months. An injury is serious when it makes you miss at least one full day of usual activities (such as school, sports, or a job) or requires treatment by a doctor or nurse.

Literal question

During the past 12 months, what was the major cause of the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	1689	62.3%
2	Motor vehicle accident	55	2%
3	I fell	311	11.5%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	122	4.5%
5	I was fighting with someone	91	3.4%
6	Attacked or assaulted	37	1.4%
7	Was in a fire	9	0.3%
8	Something else	396	14.6%
Sysmiss		259

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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