Summary
The 2004 National Drug Strategy Household Survey was conducted between June and November 2004. This was the eighth and largest survey in a series which commenced in 1985, and was the third to be managed by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Almost 30,000 Australians aged 12 years and older participated in the survey, in which they were asked about their knowledge of and attitudes towards drugs, their drug consumption histories, and related behaviours. To enable comparisons over time, many of the analyses reported in the 2004 First Results report are based on the population aged 14 years and over.
Preliminary material (210K PDF): Foreword; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and symbols
Introduction
- The National Drug Strategy
- Drug-related costs
- About the 2004 survey
- Comparison with previous surveys
- About this report
Overview - the status of drug use in 2004
- Drugs recently used (in the last 12 months)
- Age of initiation - ever use
- Drugs ever used
- Availability of 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
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Marijuana
- Heroin
Drug-related harm
- Perpetrators of drug-related harm
- Victims of drug-related harm
- Psychological distress and patterns of drug use
Explanatory notes
- Scope
- Methodology
- Estimation procedures
- Response rates
- Sample disposition
- Reliability of estimates
- Definitions
- Comparability with previous surveys
Appendixes 1-4 (151K PDF)
- Membership of the Technical Advisory Group
- Standard errors
- Population estimates
- Survey-related materials
- References
- Other statistics
- Access to the Confidentialised Unit Record Files