Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2010

Guyana, 2009

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GUY_2010_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Age first tried cigarette (Q28)

Data file: GYH2010_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 2241

Invalid: 151

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 36

End: 36

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

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	1534	68.5%
2	7 years old or younger	177	7.9%
3	8 or 9 years old	131	5.8%
4	10 or 11 years old	154	6.9%
5	12 or 13 years old	137	6.1%
6	14 or 15 years old	92	4.1%
7	16 years old or older	16	0.7%
Sysmiss		151

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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