Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2009

Dominica, 2009

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DMA_2009_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health and Environment

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Sep 24, 2018

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Cause of injury past 12 mo. (Q19)

Data file: DMA2009_Public_Use

Overview

Valid: 1423

Invalid: 219

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 27

End: 27

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	964	67.7%
2	Motor vehicle accident	30	2.1%
3	I fell	136	9.6%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	30	2.1%
5	I was attacked	33	2.3%
6	Was in a fire	11	0.8%
7	breathed something bad	13	0.9%
8	Something else	206	14.5%
Sysmiss		219

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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