Summary information

Study title

Drug Affinity of Young People in the Federal Republic of Germany 1993/1994

Creator

Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), Köln

Study number / PID

ZA3201, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.3201 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes of young people between the ages of 12 to 25 years on use of drugs: motives, situative conditions, influence factors. Topics: 1. general: contentment with life; frequency of selected leisure activities; length of daily use of television, radio and newspaper or reading magazines; estimated model character of various persons, organizations and media; self-assessment of health; attitude to healthful dealing with one's own body (scale); satisfaction with personal leisure time; presence one's own person to confide in; number of good friends and close acquaintances. 2. alcohol: frequency of consumption of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages; type and amount of consumption of alcoholic beverages on a weekday and weekend; places of use of alcohol; partner in use of alcohol; estimated social effects of alcohol; frequency of alcohol intoxication; age and type of situation at first alcohol intoxication. 3. nicotine: age at starting smoking; self-assessment as heavy smoker, occasional smoker or non-smoker; for persons who no longer smoke: time of quitting smoking; average use of cigarettes per day; assessment of the difficulty of giving up smoking; reasons for not smoking and for smoking (scales); type of products containing tobacco used; preferred brand of cigarettes; places of noticing references to jeopardy to health from smoking; personal attitude to jeopardy to health from smoking (scale); assumed attitude of friends to resuming or giving up smoking; assessment of personal future smoking habits. 4. Illegal drugs: familiarity and attitude to possibly trying selected illegal and legal drugs; assessment of number of friends and acquaintances who take legal and illegal drugs; drugs already consumed; type of drugs consumed; age at use of drugs; frequency of use of drugs from the first time until the time of interview; place of first use of drugs and persons involved; time of last use; frequency of use of drugs in the last 12 months; attitudes to use of drugs...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

1993 - 1994

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

In the old states 2000 persons were interviewed and in the new states 1000 persons

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2000

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

Related publications

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