samhda {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data for teens

### Description

A data frame containing data on health behaviour for school-aged children.

### Usage

    data(samhda)

### Format

A data frame with 600 observations on the following 9 variables.

wt
  A numeric weight used in sampling
gender
  1=Male, 2=Female, 7=not recorded
grade
  1 = 6th, 2 = 8th, 3 = 10th
live.with.father
  1 = Y, 2 = N
amt.smoke
  Amount of days you smoked cigarettes in last 30. 1 = all 30, 2= 20-29, 3 = 10-19, 4 = 6-9, 5= 3-5, 6 = 1-2, 7=0
alcohol
  Have you ever drank alcohol, 1 = Y, 2 = N
amt.alcohol
  Number of days in last 30 in which you drank alcohol
marijuana
  Ever smoke marijuana. 1 = Y, 2= N
amt.marijuana
  Number of days in lst 30 that marijuana was used. 1 = Never used, 2 = all 30, 3 = 20-29, 4 = 10-19, 5 = 6-9, 6 = 3-5, 7 = 1-2, 8 =Used, but not in last 30 days

### Details

A data frame containing data on health behaviour for school-aged children.

### Source

This data is sampled from the data set "Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 1996: [United States]" collected by the World Health Organization, http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/. It is available at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA). Only complete cases are given.

### Examples

    data(samhda)
    attach(samhda)
    table(amt.smoke)

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]