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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office on Smoking and Health
Tel: 1-800-CDC-INFO
(1-800-232-4636)
TTY: 1-888-232-6348
E-mail: tobaccoinfo@cdc.gov
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Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)
Methodology
- School-based survey of students aged 13–15 years
- Can include public and private schools
- Multistage sample design with schools selected proportional to enrollment size
- Classrooms chosen randomly within selected schools
- All students in selected classes eligible for participation
- Anonymous and confidential self-administered questionnaire
- Countries may add questions to the questionnaire
- Computer-scannable answer sheets
- Requires only 30–40 minutes to administer
- Fieldwork conducted in 6–8 weeks
- Country-level data with regional-level stratification possible
- Core questionnaire (standard set of survey questions used in all locations)
Page last reviewed 02/28/2007
Page last modified 02/28/2007
