Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2009

British Virgin Islands, 2009

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VGB_2009_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health and Social Development

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: VGB2009_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1447

Invalid: 217

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 24

End: 24

Width: 1

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	930	64.3%
2	Motor vehicle accident	38	2.6%
3	I fell	127	8.8%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	53	3.7%
5	I was attacked	48	3.3%
6	Was in a fire	17	1.2%
7	breathed something bad	11	0.8%
8	Something else	223	15.4%
Sysmiss		217

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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