Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2019

Mauritius, 2019

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MUS_2019_GSHS_v01

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Ministry of Health and Wellness

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Global School-based Student Health Survey

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Serious injury cause (q19)

Data file: MUS_Rodrigues_2019_GSHS

Overview

Valid: 2376

Invalid: 339

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	1678	70.6%
2	Motor vehicle accident	83	3.5%
3	I fell	196	8.2%
4	Something fell on me or hit me	67	2.8%
5	I was attacked	27	1.1%
6	Was in a fire	15	0.6%
7	breathed something bad	4	0.2%
8	Something else	306	12.9%
Sysmiss		339

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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