Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Among Young People
- Abstract
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The Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People survey series began in 1982, under the name Smoking among Secondary Schoolchildren. The series initially aimed to provide national estimates of the proportion of secondary schoolchildren aged 11-15 who smoked, and to describe their smoking behaviour. Similar surveys were carried out every two years until 1998 to monitor trends in the prevalence of cigarette smoking. The survey then moved to an annual cycle, and questions on alcohol consumption and drug use were included. The name of the series was accordingly changed to Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young Teenagers to reflect this widened focus. Since 1998, surveys have been carried out annually, with a core section of questions included on smoking status and number of cigarettes smoked in the last week; drinking status and amount of alcohol drunk in the last week; and awareness and use of drugs. For the 2000 survey, the series title again changed, to Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use among Young People.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Smoking: smoking behaviour, attitudes to smoking, cigarette purchasing, administrative variables. Drinking: drinking behaviour, drinking in last week, alcohol purchasing. Drug use: awareness of drugs, availability of drugs, drug use
- Variables
- http://www.data-archive.ac.[…]&class=0&from=sn#gs
- Keywords
- England, adolescents, age, alcohol consumption, alcoholic drinks, amphetamines, attitudes, books, cannabis, cocaine, drinking offences, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug education, drug trafficking, ecstasy (drug), educational attendance, educational rules, educational year, ethnic groups, families, free school meals, friends, gender, hallucinogenic drugs, heroin, illegal drugs, information sources, lsd (drug), magic mushrooms, methadone, opiate drugs, physiological effects, policy, purchasing, school discipline, school punishments, schoolchildren, secondary schools, smoking, smoking cessation, smoking restrictions, solvent abuse, steroid drugs, stimulant drugs, strategies, student behaviour, tobacco, tranquillisers, truancy, underage drinking
- Identifier Variables
- N/A
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Data collecting organization (s)
- National Centre for Social Research and National Foundation for Educational Research
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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9,202 pupils completed questionnaires in 2005, 9,715 pupils completed questionnaires in 2004
- Availability
- ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/[…]/relatedStudyListForSN.asp?sn=3251
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/publicationListForSN.asp?sn=4485 .