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released: 31 Aug 1999 author: AIHW media release

Presents summary data collected in Australia's most comprehensive national drug survey on drug issues. Key results on drug-related awareness, knowledge, attitudes and behaviour are a feature. Comparisons with the 1995 survey are presented, and population estimates of the numbers of consumers of both licit and illicit substances are also provided.

ISSN 1442-7230; ISBN 978 1 74024 005 5; Cat. no. PHE 15; 111pp.; FREE

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (102K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Foreword
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Summary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Sections (221K PDF)
    • Introduction
      • The National Drug Strategy
      • Drug-related harm
      • About the 1998 survey
      • Comparisons with 1995 results
      • About this report
    • Overview-the status of drug use in 1998 4
      • Lifetime use of drugs
      • Drugs recently used (in the last 12 months)
      • Age of initiation-lifetime use
      • Preferred drugs
      • Drugs thought to be associated with a drug 'problem'
      • Acceptability of drug use
      • Support for the legalisation of illicit drugs
      • Nominal distribution of a drugs budget
      • Support for increased penalties for the sale or supply of illicit drugs
    • Consumption patterns
      • Tobacco
      • Alcohol
      • Illicit drugs
    • Community support for drug-related policy
      • Introduction
      • Tobacco
      • Alcohol
      • Illicit drugs
    • Drug-related activities
      • Perpetrators of drug-related harm
      • Victims of drug-related harm
    • Explanatory notes
      • Introduction
      • Methodology
      • Response rates
      • Estimation procedures
      • Reliability of estimates
      • Definitions
      • Comparability with the 1995 survey
  • End matter (85K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Membership of survey committees
      • Appendix 2: Standard errors and relative standard errors
      • Appendix 3: Population estimates
      • Appendix 4: Survey-related materials
      • Appendix 5: The questionnaire 

Appendixes

1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey questionnaire (177K PDF)

Recommended citation

AIHW 1999. 1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: first results. Drug Statistics Series no. 1. Cat. no. PHE 15. Canberra: AIHW.