Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS), 2012, 2nd Survey

KENYA, 2012
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center

CSV JSON

age when young person first tried drugs (wom_man_q1239)

Data file: NCSS 2012 WOMEN+MEN CHARACTERISTICS ANALYTICAL FILE

Overview

vald 6564

invd 39

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 9 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How old were you when you first tried one of these things?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
9		1	0%
10		5	0.1%
11		2	0%
12		3	0%
13		4	0.1%
14		8	0.1%
15		16	0.2%
16		17	0.3%
17		18	0.3%
18		12	0.2%
19		7	0.1%
20		7	0.1%
21		3	0%
22		1	0%
98	don't know	5	0.1%
99	not applicable	6238	95%
9999995	missing:impute	217	3.3%
Sysmiss		39

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

Question post text

Interviewer instructions

Qs 1235-1240 are meant to capture substance abuse by the woman and/or her peers. Be sure to select all substances reported in Q1237 & 1239A.

Description

Text

Age when individual first tried drugs

Universe

All individuals aged 12-24 years whose similarly-aged friends have taken any kind of drug according to wom_man_q1235 and who have ever tried drugs themselves according to wom_man_q1237