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released: 1 Jun 2000 author: AIHW

The National Drug Strategy is a comprehensive, integrated approach to the harmful use of licit and illicit drugs and other substances. The National Drug Strategy is managed under the direction of the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, which brings together Commonwealth, state and territory Ministers responsible for health and law enforcement to collectively determine national policies and programs designed to reduce the harm caused by drugs to individuals, families and communities in Australia. Between June and September 1998, 10,030 Australians aged 14 and older participated in the National Drug Strategy Household Survey. This was the sixth survey in a series which began in 1985. Respondents were asked about their knowledge of drugs, their attitudes towards drugs, their drug consumption histories and related behaviours. This report features results for Western Australia, based on responses from 764 respondents in that state.

ISSN 1442-7230; ISBN 978 1 74024 038 3; Cat. no. PHE 22; 69pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (69K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • Summary (separate 33K PDF)
    • Acknowledgments
    • Funding
    • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Sections
    • Introduction (35K PDF)
      1. The National Drug Strategy
      2. Drug-related harm
      3. About the 1998 survey
      4. Comparisons with 1995 results
      5. About this report
    • Overview - the status of drug use in 1998 (111K PDF)
      1. Lifetime use of drugs by males
      2. Lifetime use of drugs by females
      3. Lifetime use of drugs by all persons
      4. Drugs recently used by males
      5. Drugs recently used by females
      6. Drugs recently used by all persons
      7. Age of initiation - lifetime use for males
      8. Age of initiation - lifetime use for females
      9. Age of initiation - lifetime use for all persons
      10. Acceptability of drug use
      11. Support for legislation of illicit drugs
    • Consumption patterns (115K PDF) 1
      1. Tobacco
      2. Alcohol
      3. Illicit drugs
      4. Source of supply
    • Drug-related activities (75K PDF)
      1. Perpetrators of drug-related harm
      2. Victims of drug-related harm
      3. Inquiries resulting from drug-related incidents
    • Explanatory notes (90K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Methodology
      3. Response rates
      4. Estimation procedures
      5. Reliability of estimates
      6. Definitions
      7. Comparability with the 1995 survey
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Membership of survey committees (5K PDF)
      • Appendix 2: Standard errors and relative standard errors (62K PDF)
      • Appendix 3: Population estimates (32K PDF)
      • Appendix 4: Survey-related materials (57K PDF)
      • Appendix 5: The questionnaire (216K PDF)

Notes and corrections

  1. 20011016: The PDF file has been updated to reflect changes made to Tables 3.20 and 3.21 in the document.

Recommended citation

AIHW 2000. 1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: Western Australia results. Drug Statistics Series no. 3. Cat. no. PHE 22. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 12 June 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467144>.