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Background information about ESPAD The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Background information about ESPAD The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs. www.espad.org. Data collections. Data collections in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 (and 2008) Students that will become 16 years old during the year of the data collection

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Background information about ESPAD The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs

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  1. Background information about ESPAD The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs www.espad.org

  2. Data collections • Data collections in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007 (and 2008) • Students that will become 16 years old during the year of the data collection • Nationally representative samples of classes • 26 countries in 1995 • 30 countries in 1999 • 35 countries in 2003 • 35 countries in 2007 (plus 5 in 2008) www.espad.org

  3. Background • Swedish school surveys since 1971 • Lack of comparable data from other countries • Initiated by CAN... • ... in cooperation with the Pompidou Group • Coordinated by CAN www.espad.org

  4. Supported by • The Swedish Government • The Swedish National Institute of Public Health • The Pompidou Group at the Council of Europe • The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) www.espad.org

  5. Target population • Students that will become 16 years old (born in 1991) • About 2.400 participating students in each country (with national variations) • About 105.000 European students www.espad.org

  6. Purpose (1) • Have access to comparable data on drug use among students • Include as many European countries as possible • Monitor trends in • single countries • Europe • Serve as an incitement for alcohol and drug prevention among youth www.espad.org

  7. Purpose (2) • Provide data that can be used as a part of the evaluation of • EU action plans on drugs • WHO Europe framework of alcohol policy www.espad.org

  8. Strategy: standardisation • Target age group • Random sampling of classes • Master questionnaire • Survey leader protocol • Data collection procedure • Anonymity • Time of data collection • Common database www.espad.org

  9. ESPAD 07Methodological considerations • Taken together, the methodological problems are limited • Drug use figures are probably somewhat underestimated • Underreporting probably differ somewhat between countries • However, unlikely that underreporting differs so much that it effects the main results with clear differences between groups of countries • Small discrepancies between countries should be considered carefully www.espad.org

  10. It probably functions pretty well to compare countries, if you • standardise as much as possible • try to prevent methodological problems as much as possible • follow up all methodological uncertainties • accept that the validity might differ a little between countries • don’t overestimate small differences between data collections or countries www.espad.org

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