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Structured Abstract
Background:
This report provides a comprehensive summary of methodological research conducted on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). Studies have addressed sampling, counting and listing operations, questionnaire design, data collection procedures, editing and imputation procedures, nonresponse, and statistical analysis techniques associated with the survey.
Method:
The publications summarized in this report were compiled through an extensive search of archives and databases. The report is organized into chapters based on year of publication from 1975 to 2014. In each chapter, publication summaries are sorted alphabetically by the last name of the first author.
Results:
Methodological research has been critical to the NSDUH project, providing information to identify and quantify survey errors, to guide redesign efforts, and to develop more efficient survey processes.
Conclusion:
This research is of great value to users of NSDUH data who need to understand the impact of method effects on their own studies. The NSDUH body of methodological research also will be useful to those responsible for managing large-scale surveys or designing new surveys, particularly if they will collect substance use data.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1975–1986
- The effectiveness of cash incentives to respondents as an inducement to cooperate in completing an in-home interview: Fall 1981 incentive evaluation report for the National Drug Abuse Survey
- Sensitivity of survey techniques in measuring illicit drug use
- Heroin incidence: A trend comparison between national household survey data and indicator data
- Influence of privacy on self-reported drug use by youths
- The validity of self-reported drug use data: The accuracy of responses on confidential self-administered answer sheets
- The nominative technique: A new method of estimating heroin prevalence
- 1990–1991
- 1992
- Follow-up of nonrespondents in 1990
- A follow-up study of nonrespondents to the 1990 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Inconsistent reporting of drug use in 1988
- A method for identifying cognitive properties of survey items
- An overview of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse and related methodological research
- The incidence of illicit drug use in the United States, 1962–1989
- Introduction. In C. F. Turner, J. T. Lessler, & J. C. Gfroerer (Eds.), Survey measurement of drug use: Methodological studies
- Collecting data on illicit drug use by phone
- The intersection of drug use and criminal behavior: Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Effects of decomposition of complex concepts
- 1992 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Findings of first quarter skip test: Final report
- Effects of mode of administration and wording on reporting of drug use
- Effects of mode of administration and wording on data quality
- Survey measurement of drug use: Methodological studies
- Item nonresponse in 1988
- 1993
- 1994
- Repeated measures of estimation of measurement bias for self-reported drug use with applications to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Estimating substance abuse treatment need from the NHSDA
- Small area estimation for the National Household Survey of [sic] Drug Abuse
- Prevalence of drug use in the DC metropolitan area household and nonhousehold populations: 1991
- Breach of privacy in surveys on adolescent drug use: A methodological inquiry
- Ratio estimation of hard-core drug use
- 1995
- 1996
- Repeated measures estimation of measurement bias for self-reports of drug use with applications to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Aggregating survey data on drug use across household, institutionalized, and homeless populations
- Increasing response rates and data quality in personal interview surveys without increasing costs: An application of CQI to the NHSDA
- Social environmental impacts on survey cooperation
- Special populations, sensitive issues, and the use of computer-assisted interviewing in surveys
- The influence of parental presence on the reporting of sensitive behaviors by youth
- The development and implementation of a new data collection instrument for the 1994 national household survey on drug abuse
- Estimates of drug use prevalence in Miami from the 1991–1994 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Methodological report
- 1997
- Repeated measures estimation of measurement bias for self-reported drug use with applications to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Substance abuse in states and metropolitan areas: Model based estimates from the 1991–1993 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse: Methodology report
- Studies of nonresponse and measurement error in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Prevalence of youth substance use: The impact of methodological differences between two national surveys
- The validity of self-reported drug use data: The accuracy of responses on confidential self-administered answer sheets
- Recall decay and telescoping in self-reports of alcohol and marijuana use: Results from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)
- Is “up” right? The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse [review]
- The drug abuse treatment gap: Recent estimates
- Ratio estimation of hardcore drug use
- The use of external data sources and ratio estimation to improve estimates of hardcore drug use from the NHSDA
- 1998
- Major design changes in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Reports of smoking in a national survey: Data from screening and detailed interviews, and from self- and interviewer-administered questions
- Testing ACASI procedures to reduce inconsistencies in respondent reports in the NHSDA: Results from the 1997 experimental field test
- Estimating substance abuse treatment need from a national household survey
- Nonresponse in household interview surveys
- Adjusting survey estimates for response bias: An application to trends in alcohol and marijuana use
- Development of computer assisted interviewing procedures for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA): Design and operation of the 1997 CAI field experiment
- Discussion of issues facing the NHSDA
- Effects of experimental audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) procedures on reported drug use in the NHSDA: Results from the 1997 CAI field experiment
- Drug abuse treatment: Data limitations affect the accuracy of national and state estimates of need
- A comparison of computer-assisted and paper-and-pencil self-administered questionnaires in a survey on smoking, alcohol, and drug use
- Hierarchical models applied to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)
- 1999
- Usability testing for self-administered survey instruments: Conversion of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse as a case study
- Population coverage in the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- You want 75,000 unique maps by WHEN?
- Validity of drug use reporting in a high-risk community sample: A comparison of cocaine and heroin survey reports with hair tests
- Measuring interstate variations in drug problems
- 2000
- Use of alternating logistic regression in studies of drug-use clustering
- Experience with the generalized exponential model (GEM) for weight calibration for NHSDA
- The generalized exponential model for sampling weight calibration for extreme values, nonresponse, and poststratification
- Developing computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Design consistent small area estimates using Gibbs algorithm for logistic models
- Bias corrected estimating function approach for variance estimation adjusted for poststratification
- Variance estimation adjusted for weight calibration via the generalized exponential model with application to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- 2001
- Discussion notes: Session 5
- Variance models applicable to the NHSDA
- Estimation for person-pair drug-related characteristics in the presence of pair multiplicities and extreme sampling weights for NHSDA
- Substance use survey data collection methodologies and selected papers [Commentary]
- Coverage, sample design, and weighting in three federal surveys
- Mode effects in self-reported mental health data
- Impact of computerized screenings on selection probabilities and response rates in the 1999 NHSDA
- Examining prevalence differences in three national surveys of youth: Impact of consent procedures, mode, and editing rules
- Learning from experience: Estimating teen use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana from three survey protocols
- Substance use survey data collection methodologies and selected papers [Commentary]
- State estimates of substance abuse prevalence: Redesign of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)
- Understanding the differences in youth drug prevalence rates produced by the MTF, NHSDA, and YRBS studies
- Substance use survey data collection methodologies: Introduction
- Substance use survey data collection methodologies [Commentary]
- Needs for state and local data of national relevance
- Development of computer-assisted interviewing procedures for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: 1999 nonresponse analysis report
- Culture and item nonresponse in health surveys
- Person-pair sampling weight calibration using the generalized exponential model for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- How do response problems affect survey measurement of trends in drug use?
- Predictive mean neighborhood imputation with application to the person-pair data of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Examining substance abuse data collection methodologies
- 2002
- Assessment of the computer-assisted instrument
- Mode effects on substance use measures: Comparison of 1999 CAI and PAPI data
- Nonresponse in the 1999 NHSDA
- Introduction. In J. Gfroerer, J. Eyerman, & J. Chromy (Eds.), Redesigning an ongoing national household survey: Methodological issues
- Redesigning an ongoing national household survey: Methodological issues
- Impact of interviewer experience on respondent reports of substance use
- Development of editing rules for CAI substance use data
- 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Incentive experiment combined quarter 1 and quarter 2 analysis
- Changes in NHSDA measures of substance use initiation
- Predictive mean neighborhood imputation for NHSDA substance use data
- 1999–2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Changes in race and ethnicity questions
- Substance abuse among older adults in 2020: Projections using the life table approach and the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
- Summary of NHSDA design changes in 1999
- 2003
- Possible age-associated bias in reporting of clinical features of drug dependence: Epidemiological evidence on adolescent-onset marijuana use
- The utility of debriefing questions in a household survey on drug abuse
- Substance use treatment need among older adults in 2020: The impact of the aging baby-boom cohort
- Comparison of linear and nonlinear models for generalized variance functions for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Screening for serious mental illness in the general population
- The effect of interviewer experience on the interview process in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Appendix C: NSDUH changes and their impact on trend measurement
- Effect of incentives on data collection: A record of calls analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- 2004
- Triad sampling in household surveys
- Estimating substance abuse treatment need by state [editorial]
- Estimating trends in substance use based on reports of prior use in a cross-sectional survey
- A simple evaluation of the imputation procedures used in NSDUH
- Measuring treatment needs: A reply to Gfroerer, Epstein, and Wright
- Substance abuse treatment needs and access in the USA: Interstate variations
- Prevalence of adult binge drinking: A comparison of two national surveys
- A system for detecting interviewer falsification
- Nonresponse among persons age 50 and older in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Imputation and unbiased estimation: Use of the centered predictive mean neighborhoods method
- Combined-year state-level public use files and single-year nation-level PUFs from the National Survey of [sic] Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data
- 2005
- A test of the item count methodology for estimating cocaine use prevalence
- Model-based estimation of drug use prevalence using item count data
- Evaluation of follow-up probes to reduce item nonresponse in NSDUH
- Association between interviewer experience and substance use prevalence rates in NSDUH
- Comparing NSDUH income data with income data in other datasets
- Incidence and impact of controlled access situations on nonresponse
- The differential impact of incentives on cooperation and data collection costs: Results from the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse incentive experiment
- Processing of race and ethnicity in the 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Development of a Spanish questionnaire for NSDUH
- Results of the variance component analysis of sample allocation by age in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Forward telescoping bias in reported age of onset: An example from cigarette smoking
- Evaluating and improving methods used in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Introduction. In J. Kennet & J. Gfroerer (Eds.), Evaluating and improving methods used in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Introduction of an incentive and its effects on response rates and costs in NSDUH
- Applying cognitive psychological principles to the improvement of survey data: A case study from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Assessing the reliability of key measures in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health using a test-retest methodology
- The use of monetary incentives in federal surveys on substance use and abuse
- Effects of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on NSDUH response rates
- Interviewer falsification detection using data mining
- Appendix C: Research on the impact of changes in NSDUH methods
- Analysis of NSDUH record of call data to study the effects of a respondent incentive payment
- Analyzing audit trails in NSDUH
- Modeling context effects in the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- Are two feet in the door better than one? Using process data to examine interviewer effort and nonresponse bias
- Decomposing the total variation in a nested random effects model of neighborhood, household, and individual components when the dependent variable is dichotomous: Implications for adolescent marijuana use
- Non-response bias from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse incentive experiment
- 2006
- Variance estimation of the survey-weighted kappa measure of agreement
- Population coverage in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Field interviewer behavior and response rate analysis (FIBRRA) final report
- Screening for serious mental illness in populations with co-occurring substance use disorders: Performance of the K6 scale
- 2007
- Using callback models to adjust for nonignorable nonresponse in face-to-face surveys
- Patterns of nonresponse for key questions in NSDUH and implications for imputation
- Discrepancies in estimates of prevalence and correlates of substance use and disorders between two national surveys
- Comparing drug testing and self-report of drug use among youths and young adults in the general population
- Comparing the coverage of a household sampling frame based on mailing addresses to a frame based on field enumeration
- Evaluation of the effects of new noncore drug data on prevalence estimates in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- Improving the sensitivity of needs assessment for substance abuse prevention planning: The measurement of differential severity of consequences for individual substance types
- Understanding the relative influence of neighborhood, family, and youth on adolescent drug use
- 2008
- Prevalence of nonmedical methamphetamine use in the United States
- A clinical validation of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health assessment of substance use disorders
- 2006 and 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health: Hallucinogen, methamphetamine, and prescription drug analysis
- A robust procedure to supplement the coverage of address-based sampling frames for household surveys
- Barriers to survey participation among older adults in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health: The importance of establishing trust
- Using the K6 scale to screen for serious mental illness among criminal justice populations: Do psychiatric treatment indicators improve detection rates?
- Intraclass correlation patterns of cognitive and behavioral measures of illicit drug use within six major metropolitan areas
- 2009
- 2010
- The National Survey on Drug Use and Health Mental Health Surveillance Study: Calibration analysis
- Use of single years of age in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) weighting to improve drug prevalence estimates
- Reliability of key measures in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- The National Survey on Drug Use and Health Mental Health Surveillance Study: Calibration study design and field procedures
- The influence of prior experiences in managing current and future risks during survey transition points on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- The validity of self-reported tobacco and marijuana use, by race/ethnicity, gender, and age
- The best of both worlds: A sampling frame based on address-based sampling and field enumeration
- Reliability and data quality in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Estimated drug use based on direct questioning and open-ended questions: Responses in the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Questionnaire design considerations when expanding a survey target population to include children
- Predicting the coverage of address-based sampling frames prior to sample selection
- Address-based sampling and the National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Evaluating the effects of coverage bias
- Development of a brief mental health impairment scale using a nationally representative sample in the USA
- The validity of State survey estimates of binge drinking
- The implications of geocoding error on address-based sampling
- 2011
- Errors in the recorded number of call attempts and their effect on nonresponse adjustments using callback models
- Identifying common verbatim errors through use of field observations
- Redesigning contact materials for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- Estimating mental illness in an ongoing national survey
- Identifying causes of verification refusals on a large nation-wide field study using a multilevel model
- Abuse and dependence on prescription opioids in adults: A mixture categorical and dimensional approach to diagnostic classification
- 2012
- Innovative recruitment using online networks: Lessons learned from an online study of alcohol and other drug use utilizing a web-based, respondent-driven sampling (webRDS) strategy
- Comparing and evaluating youth substance use estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and other surveys
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Sample redesign issues and methodological studies
- Imputation using the other pair member
- Methodological considerations in estimating adolescent substance use
- CBHSQ Data Review: Comparison of NSDUH mental health data and methods with other data sources
- Evaluation of small area estimates of substance use in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- A proposed hybrid sampling frame for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Adult current smoking: Differences in definitions and prevalence estimates—NHIS and NSDUH, 2008
- 2013
- Incorporating level of effort paradata in the NSDUH nonresponse adjustment process
- Using level-of-effort paradata in non-response adjustments with application to field surveys
- Getting the most out of a limited sample size field test: Experiences from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Statistics on cannabis users skew perceptions of cannabis use
- Revised estimates of mental illness from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Estimating substance abuse treatment: A comparison of data from a household survey, a facility survey, and an administrative data set
- Challenges of using prediction models to produce nationally representative estimates of serious mental illness
- On moving to the use of a hybrid sampling frame in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Motivations and challenges
- 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: A revised strategy for estimating the prevalence of mental illness
- CBHSQ Data Review: Comparison of NSDUH health and health care utilization estimates to other national data sources
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Weighting assessment report
- An investigation of decennial census effects on estimates of substance use and mental illness from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- Extending the coverage of address-based sampling frames: Beyond the USPS computerized delivery sequence file
- An empirical study to evaluate the performance of synthetic estimates of substance use in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Assessing the relationship between interviewer effects and NSDUH data quality
- 2014
- CBHSQ Data Review: Comparing and evaluating substance use treatment utilization estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and other data sources
- Discrepancies in prevalence estimates in two national surveys for nonmedical use of a specific opioid product versus any prescription pain reliever
- Monitoring of non-cigarette tobacco use using Google Trends
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health: 2012 Questionnaire Field Test final report
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health: 2013 Dress Rehearsal final report
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Investigation into text to speech software
- Primary measures of dependence among menthol compared to non-menthol cigarette smokers in the United States
- CBHSQ Data Review: Arrestee substance use: Comparison of estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health and the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program
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