Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll # 2006-ADDICTION: Addiction Prevention and Treatment, United States, 2006 (ICPSR 38357)

Version Date: Mar 8, 2022

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Principal Investigator(s):
International Communications Research (ICR)

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38357.v1

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Summary

This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) directly for details on obtaining the data.

This collection includes variable-level metadata of Poll # 2006-ADDICTION: Addiction Prevention and Treatment, a survey from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by ICR-International Communications Research. Topics covered in this survey include:

  • National spending on drug/alcohol prevention
  • National spending on drug/alcohol treatment
  • Favor/oppose increase in state taxes to improve drug/alcohol treatment programs
  • Personal experience with drug/alcohol problems
  • View on addiction as personal/community and health care problems
  • Recommendation of hypothetical pill to friend/family member to help them stop drinking/using drugs
  • Effectiveness of religious/spiritual guidance as a form of treatment for alcohol addiction
  • Addiction to drugs/alcohol as personal weakness or form of illness
  • Adequacy of number of high-quality treatment services available for teens/adults experiencing drug addiction in community
The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092309]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 100 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.

Citation

International Communications Research (ICR). Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll # 2006-ADDICTION: Addiction Prevention and Treatment, United States, 2006. Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [distributor], 2022-03-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38357.v1

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Funding

Harvard University. School of Public Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Geographic Coverage

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State

Distributor(s)

Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
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Time Period(s)

2006

Date of Collection

2006-04-11 -- 2006-04-15

Data Collection Notes

  1. Please visit the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research website for more information for Poll # 2006-ADDICTION: Addiction Prevention and Treatment.
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Sample

The sample includes 1,112 national adults.

Universe

National adult

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2022-03-08

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Weight

The study dataset contains weight factors that should be employed in any data analysis. Typically weights are used in an attempt to assure that the survey sample more accurately represents the population. The weight variable in this study is WEIGHT.

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