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This 4 page paper uses data supplied by the student to answer a set of six questions using data from the national household survey on drug abuse 2001. The questions include the use of both univariate and bivariate analysis and discussion of the results. The bibliography cites 1 source.
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This is seen in table 1. Table 1 Use of drugs Short name Long name % Yes CIGEVER Ever smoked a cigarette 67.0 ALCEVER Ever has drink of alcoholic beverage
81.6 MJEVER Ever used marijuana/hashish 36.9 COCEVER Ever used cocaine 12.3 CRKEVER Ever used crack 22.4 HEREVER Ever used heroin 1.4 The sample in this study is 48.1% male and
51.9% male. Question 2 The analysis looks at the percentage of the sample that have ever used different types of drugs
shows that the most commonly used drug is alcohol with 81.6% of the sample having tried alcohol, this is followed by cigarette smoking with usage by 67% of the sample.
The least used drug was heroin with only 1.4% of the sample. Question 3 H1 Males are more likely than females to have ever used crack. [My independent variable
is SEX (male, female) and my dependent variable is ever used crack (yes, no).] Question 4 Cross tabulating the data can assess the levels of the drug used by
gender, this is shown in table 2 Table 2 drug use divided by gender Short name % "yes" male % "yes" female CIGEVER 34.7 32.3 ALCEVER 41.1 40.5 MJEVER 19.7
17.1 COCEVER 7.2 5.1 CRKEVER 13.9 8.6 HEREVER 0.9 0.5 Question 5 When looking at the data and considering the hypothesis the data appears to support the assertion that males
are more likely to have ever used cracked compared to females. As 13.9% of the sample are both make and used crack and only 8.6% of the sample of both
female and have used crack. These statistics appear to support the hypothesis as the sample was slightly skewed towards females, which made up 5.19% of the sample. If usage was
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