Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2016

Ecuador, 2016

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ECU_2016_GYTS_v01_M

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Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Education

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motivation for e cigarettes use (ECR41)

Data file: ECUADOR_16

Overview

Valid: 5428

Invalid: 34

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

What is your main motivation for having used electronic cigarettes?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never used an electronic cigarette	4268	78.6%
2	They probably cause no harm to health	458	8.4%
3	They taste better than regular cigarettes	325	6%
4	They reduce the number of manufactured cigarettes that I smoke	29	0.5%
5	They can be used in places where smoked tobacco use is generally banned	34	0.6%
6	They can help quit smoking tobacco products	37	0.7%
7	Because it is a fashionable product	75	1.4%
8	To experiment with a new product	202	3.7%
Sysmiss		34

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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