National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 1998

This study is the sixth in a series of National Household Surveys to examine current awareness, attitudes and behaviour related to drugs and drug problems, usage of drugs, and to assess changes in these attitudes and usage over the period 1985-1998. The five earlier studies are Social Issues in Australia, 1985, the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Social Issues Survey, 1988, the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Social Issues Survey, 1991, the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Social Issues Survey, 1993, and the National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 1995. A supplement was also carried out targeting the urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in 1994. As with the previous surveys in the series, the questionnaire asked respondents about their degree of concern regarding various social issues and drugs. A sealed section of the questionnaire allowed respondents to indicate their usage of each drug without the interviewer being aware of their answers. In addition, self-completion questionnaires were administered to two supplementary samples. The drugs covered were tobacco/cigarettes, alcohol, pain killers/analgesics, tranquillisers, steroids, barbiturates, marijuana, heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, hallucinogens, LSD, ecstasy/designer drugs and inhalants. This survey also includes extra questions on State and Territory regulations on Cannabis use, alcohol and drug related incidents and respondent's friends drug use, a section on Methadone, and the SF-36 survey instrument to enable a personal health 'score' for each respondent to be calculated. Background variables include state, geographic location, sex, date of birth, marital status, birthplace, language spoken at home, employment status, occupation, educational attainment, income and household descriptions. <br> <br> <b>User Notice:</b> NDSHS 1998 is no longer accessible. AIHW has gradually phased out pre-2001 data from analyses, as the methodology and questions are incompatible with later waves.

本研究为全国家庭调查（National Household Surveys）系列的第六项课题，旨在考察民众与药物及药物问题、药物使用相关的当下认知、态度与行为，并评估1985年至1998年间上述态度与用药行为的变化情况。此前五项研究分别为1985年《澳大利亚社会议题调查》、1988年全国反药物滥用运动（National Campaign Against Drug Abuse）社会议题调查、1991年全国反药物滥用运动社会议题调查、1993年全国反药物滥用运动社会议题调查，以及1995年国家药物战略全国家庭调查（National Drug Strategy Household Survey）。1994年还针对城市原住民与托雷斯海峡岛民（Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander）群体开展了补充调查。

与本系列此前的调查一致，本次调查问卷向受访者询问了其对各类社会议题及药物的关注程度。问卷中设有保密模块，受访者可自行填报各类药物的使用情况，而调查员无法获知其具体作答内容。此外，本次调查还向两个补充样本发放了自填式问卷（self-completion questionnaires）。

本次调查涵盖的药物包括烟草/香烟、酒精、止痛药/镇痛剂（pain killers/analgesics）、镇静剂（tranquillisers）、类固醇（steroids）、巴比妥类药物（barbiturates）、大麻（marijuana）、海洛因（heroin）、苯丙胺类兴奋剂（amphetamines）、可卡因（cocaine）、致幻剂（hallucinogens）、麦角酸二乙酰胺（LSD）、摇头丸/设计药物（ecstasy/designer drugs）以及吸入剂（inhalants）。

本次调查还增设了关于各州及领地大麻使用监管规定、酒精与药物相关事件、受访者亲友药物使用情况的额外问题，设有美沙酮（Methadone）相关模块，并采用SF-36健康调查量表（SF-36 survey instrument），可用于计算每位受访者的个人健康"得分"。背景变量（background variables）涵盖所属州/领地、地理位置、性别、出生日期、婚姻状况、出生地、家庭使用语言、就业状况、职业、受教育程度、收入水平以及家庭情况。

<b>用户须知：</b>1998年全国药物战略全国家庭调查（NDSHS 1998）现已无法访问。澳大利亚健康与福利研究所（AIHW）已逐步在分析工作中淘汰2001年之前的数据集，因其研究方法与问卷问题与后续各轮调查不兼容。