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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Initiation of drug use (q40)

Data file: PNMHq

Overview

Valid: 2871

Invalid: 77

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 4 questions ask about drug use. This includes using marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, inhalants, and COUNTRY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.

Literal question

How old were you when you first used drugs?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never used drugs	2576	89.7%
2	7 years old or younger	19	0.7%
3	8 or 9 years old	15	0.5%
4	10 or 11 years old	24	0.8%
5	12 or 13 years old	71	2.5%
6	14 or 15 years old	98	3.4%
7	16 or 17 years old	64	2.2%
8	18 years old or older	4	0.1%
Sysmiss		77

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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