Data · dataset · 2011
Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS)
Listed in Harvard Dataverse
Users can view and download data regarding youth health behaviors and risk factors from a variety of countries (including the United States).
Description
Background
The Global School-based Student Health Survey is developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UNICEF, UNAIDS and UNESCO. The survey is conducted in schools around the world and looks at the health behaviors of students. The information is used by countries to establish priorities and develop programs and by international agencies to make comparisons across countries to gain better understanding of the prevalence and trends of health behaviors.The core questionnaires are designed to gain understanding of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity world wide.
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The students are asked questions about alcohol and drug use, dietary behaviors, hygiene, mental health, physical activity, protective factors, sexual behaviors, tobacco use and violent behaviors. User Functionality From the website, users can view results by country. Many, but not all, countries have released copies of their questionnaire, fact sheets, full reports and their data.
The data is available to download to SAS, Access, SPSS or ASCII. Data
Notes
The survey participants are between 13 and 15 years old. For some countries, the most recent report is from 2010 and the most recent data set available for download is from 2008. The site does not specify when the data sets will be updated.
Links
Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2F9J69TX ↗
landing page · from Harvard Dataverse
- DOI doi.org/10.7910/dvn/9j69tx ↗
DOI / persistent id · from Harvard Dataverse
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API dataverse.harvard.edu/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2… ↗
metadata API · from Harvard Dataverse
Topics
- Inferred from text
- Disease 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard Dataverse | doi:10.7910/DVN/9J69TX | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[disease].local:disease:disease | enrichment · Harvard Dataverse | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| created_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 |