Global School-Based Student Health Survey 2023
St Catherine Parish

Jamaica, 2023

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JAM_2023_GSHS_v01

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National Council on Drug Abuse

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May 13, 2026

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Physical activity past 7 days (pa_days)

Data file: JAM-St-Cath-2023

Overview

Valid: 2827

Invalid: 214

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 10

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

The next 4 questions ask about physical activity. Physical activity is any activity that increases your heart rate and makes you breathe hard. Physical activity can be done in sports, playing with friends, walking to school, or in physical education class. Some examples of physical activity are running, fast walking, biking, dancing, football, and COUNTRY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES.

Literal question

During the past 7 days, on how many days were you physically active for a total of at least 60 minutes per day? ADD UP ALL THE TIME YOU SPENT IN ANY KIND OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY EACH DAY.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	0 days	716	25.3%
2	1 day	434	15.4%
3	2 days	314	11.1%
4	3 days	281	9.9%
5	4 days	179	6.3%
6	5 days	203	7.2%
7	6 days	97	3.4%
8	7 days	603	21.3%
Sysmiss		214

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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