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Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2002

Latvia, 2002
Reference ID
LVA_2002_GYTS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Tobacco Free Initiative, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Metadata
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Dec 12, 2013
Last modified
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  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number

    LVA_2002_GYTS_v01_M
    Title

    Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2002
    Country
    Name Country code
    Latvia LVA
    Study type

    Other Household Health Survey [hh/hea]
    Series Information

    In December 1998, TFI convened a meeting in Geneva with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and representatives from countries in each of the six WHO regions to discuss the need for standardized mechanisms to collect youth tobacco use information on a global basis. The outcome of this meeting was the development by WHO and CDC of a Global Tobacco Surveillance System, which uses the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) as its data collection mechanism.
    Abstract

    The GYTS is a school-based survey designed to enhance the capacity of countries to monitor tobacco use among youth and to guide the implementation and evaluation of tobacco prevention and control programmes. The GYTS uses a standard methodology for constructing the sampling frame, selecting schools and classes, preparing questionnaires, following consistent field procedures, and using consistent data management procedures for data processing and analysis. The information generated from the GYTS can be used to stimulate the development of tobacco control programmes and can serve as a means to assess progress in meeting programme goals. In addition, GYTS data can be used to monitor seven Articles in the WHO FCTC.The Latvia GYTS was a school-based survey of students in 7th, 8th and 9th grades conducted in 2002.
    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]
    Unit of Analysis

    Households
    Individuals

    Scope

    Notes

    GYTS is composed of 56 "core" questions designed to gather data on the following seven domains. The questionnaire also allows countries to insert their own country-specific questions.

    • Knowledge and attitudes of young people towards cigarette smoking
    • Prevalence of cigarette smoking and other tobacco use among young people
    • Role of the media and advertising in young people’s use of cigarettes
    • Access to cigarettes
    • Tobacco-related school curriculum
    • Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
    • Cessation of cigarette smoking

    The Latvia GYTS includes data on prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use: access/availability and price, exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum. These determinants are components Latvia could include in a comprehensive tobacco control program.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    National

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Tobacco Free Initiative World Health Organization
    U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Canadian Public Health Association Funding
    National Cancer Institute Funding
    United Nations Children Emergency Fund Funding
    World Health Organization- Tobacco Free Initiative Funding
    Other Identifications/Acknowledgments
    Name
    Latvian Ministry of Education and Science

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    A two-stage cluster sample design was used to produce representative data for Latvia. At the first stage, schools were selected with probability proportional to enrollment size. At the second stage, classes were randomly selected and all students in selected classes were eligible to participate. The school response rate was 100.0%, the class response rate was 100.0%, the student response rate was 81.3%, and the overall response rate was 81.3%. A total of 1,803 students aged 13-15 participated in the Latvia GYTS.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start
    2002

    Data Access

    Access conditions
    • Public use files, accessible to all
    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) World Health Organization tfi@who.int http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global Tobacco Surveillance System gtssinfo@cdc.gov http://nccd.cdc.gov/gtssdata/Help/ContactUs.aspx
    Microdata Library World Bank microdatalib@worldbank.org

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_LVA_2002_GYTS_v01_M_WB
    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Development Economics Data Group The World Bank Documentation of the DDI
    Date of Metadata Production

    2002

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 01 (October 2013)
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