Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2019

Uruguay, 2019

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URY_2019_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Serious injury type (q18)

Data file: URY2019 (Montevideo)

Overview

Valid: 1457

Invalid: 98

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

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 most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	988	67.8%
2	Broken bone/dislocated joint	121	8.3%
3	I had a cut or stab wound	29	2%
4	Concussion/head injury	21	1.4%
5	I had a gunshot wound	1	0.1%
6	I had a bad burn	5	0.3%
7	I was poisoned	0	0%
8	Something else happened to me	292	20%
Sysmiss		98

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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