Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2006

India, 2006

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Reference ID

IND_2006_GYTS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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age first smokeless tobacco (INR19)

Data file: INDIA_06

Overview

Valid: 12076

Invalid: 10

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How old were you when you first tried chewing or applying or snuff tobacco? (This includes chewing tobacco such as tobacco leaf, tobacco leaf and lime-khaini/ sada/ surti, gutka, panmasala with zarda or pan with zarda; applying tobacco such as gul, gudaku

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I have never used chewing or applying or snuff tobacco	10067	83.4%
2	7 years old or younger	423	3.5%
3	8 or 9 years old	462	3.8%
4	10 or 11 years old	412	3.4%
5	12 or 13 years old	342	2.8%
6	14 or 15 years old	282	2.3%
7	16 years old or older	88	0.7%
Sysmiss		10

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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