UPHD - Survey on Social, Health and Overall wellbeing of older people (50+ years)

KENYA, 2006 - 2010
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center,

CSV JSON

Age when started smoking (v1404)

Data file: AllWavesCombined

Overview

vald 1226

invd 4665

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 99

Questions and instructions

Literal question

14.4 How old were you when you first started smoking daily?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1		1	0.1%
7		1	0.1%
10		3	0.2%
11		1	0.1%
14		4	0.3%
15		9	0.7%
16		5	0.4%
17		6	0.5%
18		13	1.1%
19		6	0.5%
20		25	2%
21		1	0.1%
22		5	0.4%
23		2	0.2%
24		3	0.2%
25		14	1.1%
26		4	0.3%
28		2	0.2%
29		1	0.1%
30		5	0.4%
31		1	0.1%
32		3	0.2%
33		1	0.1%
34		3	0.2%
36		2	0.2%
38		2	0.2%
39		1	0.1%
40		1	0.1%
55		1	0.1%
65		1	0.1%
95	Missing	0	0%
97	Refused	0	0%
98	Don't Know	6	0.5%
99	NA	1093	89.2%
Sysmiss		4665

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

YEARS;DONT REMEMBER...98

Interviewer instructions

IF AGE IS KNOWN, FILL THE BOX AND SKIP TO 14.6, IF DONT REMEMBER CIRCLE 98

Description

Text

Age when started smoking

Universe

All DSS Residents 50 years and above