Approved
consistent with changes and clarifications in SAMHSA memos of
9-25-00 and 10-3-00. For respondents that select more than one
race, OMB is approving a question that offers the respondent the
opportunity to choose on race that best describes him or herself.
If a respondent does not select a single race in response to this
quesiton, the interviewer should not probe further. The
respondent's decision not to choose a single race should be coded.
SAMHSA will also find a means for recording whether the respondent
in any way questioned why the interviewer was asking for the
selecting of only one race. OMB is approving this for research
purposes in support of the Tabulation Working Group of the
Interagency Committee for the review of Standards for Data on Race
and Ethnicity. SAMHSA shall report to OMB on the effects of this
quesiton. In particular, SAMHSA shall report to OMB on the
interaction between Hispanic status, age, and responses to the race
question.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2002
01/31/2002
01/31/2001
210,000
0
210,000
88,563
0
81,626
0
0
0
The NHSDA is a survey of the civilian,
noninstitutionalized population of the United States, age 12 and
over. The data are used to estimate the prevalence of cigarette,
alcohol and illicit drug use, and abuse of illicit drugs. Results
are used by SAMHSA, ONDCP, and other Federal agencies and other
resarchers and organizations to establish policy, direct program
activities, and better allocate resources. Beginning in 1999, the
survey includes an expanded tobacco module and the sample is
expanded to provide State level estimates for all States and the
District Columbia. The household screening nd interview process
are.....
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