1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: first results

1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: first results

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Drug statistics series no. 1

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.

Authored by AIHW.

Published 31 August 1999; ISSN 1442-7230; ISBN-13 978 1 74024 005 5; AIHW 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

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

1998 National Drug Strategy Household Survey