Author's response to reviews Title: Correlates of current smoking among school-going adolescents in Punjab, India: results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003 Authors:
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It was suggested that we should not consider in the analysis the weighting factor, or to justify the necessity to include it in the analysis. We still decided to weight our analysis because GYTS data are weighted to adjust for design effect, non-response, and post-stratification of the sample population relative to the grade and sex distribution in the total population. We have provided the reference to this effect.
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Correlates of current cigarette smoking among school-going adolescents in Punjab, India: results from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey 2003
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تاریخ انتشار 2007