NCJ Number
146233
Date Published
1992
Length
107 pages
Annotation
These four volumes present background and coding information, program procedures, and study instruments for the 1990 data set for the Drug Use Forecasting System, which aimed to estimate the prevalence of drug use among booked arrestees and to provide information for detecting changes in drug abuse trends.
Abstract
This study focused on drug use among male arrestees at 23 sites and among female arrestees at 21 sites. The data file includes the arrestee's current charge; the current level and type of drug use based on urinalysis and self- reports; and self-report data on age of first drug use, drug dependence, and educational history. The Drug Use Forecasting study is the first to provide objective measures of drug use in the past 24-48 hours in the population of booked arrestees. The file contains 28,325 cases and 264 variables. Included are 20,556 male arrestees and 7,769 female arrestees. The sampling procedure limited the number of males while including all females regardless of charge. Tables, procedure manual, instrument, and codebook