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CIGMFU: MONTH OF FIRST CIGARETTE USE - RECODE

Name: CIGMFU

Label: MONTH OF FIRST CIGARETTE USE - RECODE

Question:

These questions are about your use of tobacco
products.  This includes cigarettes, chewing
tobacco, snuff, cigars, and pipe tobacco.  The
first questions are about cigarettes only.

(CG04A)     NOTE: For respondents whose age at first use
was equal to or 1 year less than their current
age, responses from questions CG04a, CG04b,
CG04c, CG04d, and associated consistency checks
were used to create the following two variables.

Response Categories

CodeLabelFreq.%
1 January 171 0.3
2 February 117 0.2
3 March 156 0.3
4 April 168 0.3
5 May 154 0.3
6 June 284 0.5
7 July 243 0.4
8 August 196 0.3
9 September 168 0.3
10 October 202 0.3
11 November 156 0.3
12 December 152 0.3
Missing Data
85 BAD DATA Logically assigned 260 0.4
89 LEGITIMATE SKIP Logically assigned 151 0.3
91 NEVER USED CIGARETTES 27538 47.6
94 DON'T KNOW 303 0.5
97 REFUSED 33 0.1
98 BLANK (NO ANSWER) 131 0.2
99 LEGITIMATE SKIP 27290 47.2
Total57873100%

Disclaimer: The frequencies for this variable may not be weighted. They are purely descriptive and may not be representative of the study population. Please use with caution and consult the study documentation.

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Summary Statistics

  • total responses: 57873
  • valid: 2167
  • invalid: 55706
  • minimum: 1.00
  • maximum: 12.00
  • mode: 6.00
  • mean: 6.63
  • median: 7.00
  • standard deviation: 3.24

Source

This variable was taken from: National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2010. You may:

Series

This study is part of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Series. You may: