Assessing the linkages between socioeconomic status, perceived personal risk, and risk factors for cardiovascular and related non-communicable diseases in a population of slum dwellers in Nairobi, Kenya

KENYA, 2008 - 2009
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

Ever smoked daily in the past (v1407)

Data file: CVDMain_data

Overview

vald 5468

invd 2

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9

Questions and instructions

Literal question

14.7 In the past, did you ever smoke daily?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	346	6.3%
2	No	193	3.5%
5	Missing	0	0%
7	Refused	1	0%
9	NA	4928	90.1%
Sysmiss		2

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.

Question pretext

14.0 Risk factors and preventive behaviour.

Now I am going to ask you some questions about various health behaviours. This includes things like smoking, drinking alcohol,what you eat and physical activity. Let's start with tobacco.

Question post text

Yes...1;No...2; skip to 14.10

Description

Text

Ever smoked daily in past

Universe

All DSS Residents 50 years and above