Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2018

Argentina, 2018

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ARG_2018_GSHS_v01

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Ministerio de Salud y Desarrollo Social de la Nación

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Initiation of cigarette use (q28)

Data file: National

Overview

Valid: 55814

Invalid: 1167

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

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	33312	59.7%
2	7 years old or younger	1291	2.3%
3	8 or 9 years old	1645	2.9%
4	10 or 11 years old	3330	6%
5	12 or 13 years old	7401	13.3%
6	14 or 15 years old	6944	12.4%
7	16 or 17 years old	1874	3.4%
8	18 years old or older	17	0%
Sysmiss		1167

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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