Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2018

Panama, 2018

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PAN_2018_GSHS_v01

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Ministerio de Salud

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Serious injury cause (q19)

Data file: PNMHq

Overview

Valid: 2704

Invalid: 244

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

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	1679	62.1%
2	Motor vehicle accident	29	1.1%
3	I fell	415	15.3%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	85	3.1%
5	I was attacked	22	0.8%
6	Was in a fire	9	0.3%
7	breathed something bad	18	0.7%
8	Something else	447	16.5%
Sysmiss		244

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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