Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2003
Bulawayo, Harare, and Manicaland

Zimbabwe, 2003

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ZWE_2003_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health and Child Welfare, Zimbabwe Association of Church Hospitals

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Age first tried cigarette (Q28)

Data file: ZWAH2003_public_use

Overview

Valid: 1590

Invalid: 214

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 28

End: 28

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	1270	79.9%
2	7 years old or younger	49	3.1%
3	8 or 9 years old	56	3.5%
4	10 or 11 years old	54	3.4%
5	12 or 13 years old	76	4.8%
6	14 or 15 years old	58	3.6%
7	16 years old or older	27	1.7%
Sysmiss		214

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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