Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2018

Panama, 2018

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Reference ID

PAN_2018_GSHS_v01

Producer(s)

Ministerio de Salud

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Initiation of cigarette use (q28)

Data file: PNMHq

Overview

Valid: 2870

Invalid: 78

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	2238	78%
2	7 years old or younger	73	2.5%
3	8 or 9 years old	43	1.5%
4	10 or 11 years old	58	2%
5	12 or 13 years old	152	5.3%
6	14 or 15 years old	188	6.6%
7	16 or 17 years old	102	3.6%
8	18 years old or older	16	0.6%
Sysmiss		78

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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