Percentage of children that brush their teeth daily (16 yr)

Hlutfall barna sem bursta tennurnar daglega (16 ára)

The percentage of children that brush their teeth daily shall be calculated as the total number of children who answer "more than once a day" or "once a day" to the question "How often do you brush your teeth" (numerator) divided by the total number of children who answer the question (denominator). The result shall then be multiplied by 100 and expressed as a percentage. The study of Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children asks about various aspects of health and health-related behavior of young people. The response options were "more than once a day", "once a day", "at least once a week", "less than once a week", "never".

Hlutfall barna sem bursta tennurnar daglega skal reiknað sem heildarfjöldi barna sem svara "oftar en einu sinni á dag" og "einu sinni á dag" spurningunni "Hvað burstar þú oft í þér tennurnar" (teljari) deilt með heildarfjölda barna sem svara spurningunni (nefnari). Niðurstaðan skal margfölduð með 100 og sett fram sem prósenta. Rannsóknin Heilsa og lífskjör skólanema spurði um ýmsa þætti er varðar heilsu og heilsutengda hegðun ungs fólks. Í spurningalistanum var spurt um tannburstun. Svarmöguleikarnir voru "oftar en einu sinni á dag", "einu sinni á dag", "a.m.k. einu sinni í viku", "sjaldnar en einu sinni í viku" og "aldrei".

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