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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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q17)

Data file: ZWAH2003_public_use

Overview

Valid: 1327

Invalid: 477

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 17

End: 17

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 5 questions ask about the most serious injury that happened to you during the past 12 months. 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	542	40.8%
2	Motor vehicle accident	79	6%
3	I fell	260	19.6%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	90	6.8%
5	I was fighting with someone	46	3.5%
6	Attacked or assaulted	61	4.6%
7	Was in a fire	71	5.4%
8	Something else	178	13.4%
Sysmiss		477

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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