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Alcohol and Drug Use Survey - 2002

SND-ID: EXT 0246

This study is part of the collection CAN:s Alcohol and Drug Use Survey

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Description

Since 1971, a national drug habit survey has been conducted among Swedish ninth graders. From 2004, annual survey are also being conducted among students in the second year of high school.

The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN) are responsible for the annual survey since 1986. CAN is a non-governmental organization and their main tasks are to follow the drug trends in Sweden and to inform the public and educate professionals on alcohol and other drugs.

The results from the survey are published in a report called “Skolelevers drogvanor” (Alcohol and Drug Use Among Students). CAN also conduct regional and local school surveys upon requests from municipalities and regions.

Purpose:

The aim of the study is primarily to describe the development of drug habits and to study the differences between various groups.
Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Unit of analysis

Population

Students in ninth grade.

Time Method

Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster
Probability: Simple random
Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic description: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

HEALTH (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Health Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

leisure time, alcohol drinking, family, gambling, health, narcotics, smoking, tobacco, smokeless, tobacco, illegal drugs, schools

Publications
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Dataset
Alcohol and Drug Use Survey - 2002, ninth grade

Description

The survey in 2002 was answered by 5,349 students in ninth grade (2,726 boys and 2,623 girls), which represented a response rate of 85 % in total. Data from this years survey is electronically accessible.

Data format / data structure

Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

The Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2002-03–2002-05
  • Source of the data: Population group

Number of individuals/objects

5349

Response rate/participation rate

85%

Contacts for questions about the data

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Is part of collection at SND

CAN:s Alcohol and Drug Use Survey

Published: 2017-02-24