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 cause (q19)

Data file: URY2019 (Montevideo)

Overview

Valid: 1447

Invalid: 108

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 major cause of the most serious injury that happened to you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not seriously injured	978	67.6%
2	Motor vehicle accident	9	0.6%
3	I fell	136	9.4%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	31	2.1%
5	I was attacked	19	1.3%
6	Was in a fire	3	0.2%
7	breathed something bad	10	0.7%
8	Something else	261	18%
Sysmiss		108

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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