Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2012

Uruguay, 2012

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URY_2012_GSHS_v01

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Adolescent Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: URY2012_Montevideo_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1609

Invalid: 112

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 3 questions ask about serious injuries that happened to you. 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	1101	68.4%
2	Motor vehicle accident	29	1.8%
3	I fell	170	10.6%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	40	2.5%
5	I was attacked	14	0.9%
6	Was in a fire	7	0.4%
7	breathed something bad	10	0.6%
8	Something else	238	14.8%
Sysmiss		112

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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