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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Off Stat. 1994;10(2):197–214.

TABLE 3.

Proportion of respondents reporting use of cigarettes, alcohol and illicit drugs by mode of administration.

Audio CASI Video CASI Paper SAQ P
CIGARETTES
Past 30 Days 0.43 0.58 0.46 .82
Past 12 Months 0.43 0.67 0.46 .65
Ever in Lifetime 0.93 1.00 0.69 .02 1
ALCOHOL
Past 30 Days 0.43 0.58 0.46 .82
Past 12 Months 0.64 0.75 0.62 .63
Ever in Lifetime 0.86 0.92 0.77 .35
MARIJUANA
Past 30 Days 0.21 0.17 0.0 .09 1
Past 12 Months 0.29 0.50 0.08 .04 1
Ever in Lifetime 0.64 0.83 0.46 .10 1
COCAINE
Past 30 Days 0.00 0.00 0.00 --
Past 12 Months 0.07 0.08 0.00 .31
Ever in Lifetime 0.29 0.33 0.00 .03 1
CRACK
Past 30 Days 0.00 0.00 0.00 --
Past 12 Months 0.07 0.17 0.00 .20
Ever in Lifetime 0.21 0.17 0.00 .09 1
Ns 2 14 12 13

Notes. In Audio-CASI administration, questions were displayed on PC screen simultaneously with their audio presentation. (Respondents had option of turning off this video display, but none did so.)

1

Paper SAQ different from Video-CASI and Audio-CASI at p < 0.10 by t-test; Video-CASI and Audio-CASI not significantly different from each other by same test.

2

Ns shown are the minimum sample size for calculation of any proportion shown in the column.