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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