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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2009 Jun;18(2):69–83. doi: 10.1002/mpr.279

Table 1.

NCS-A sample disposition

Household Un-blinded
School
Blinded
School
Total
% (n) % (n) % (n) % (n)
I. Adolescents
  Interview 85.9 (904)a 81.8 (8,912) 22.3 (332) 75.6 (10,148)
  Refusal 11.3 (119) 14.7 (1,604) 76.4 (1137) 21.3 (2,860)
  Circumstantial 2.4 (25) 1.9 ( 211) 2.9 (13) 1.9 ( 249)
  No contact 0.4 (4) 1.5 ( 165) 0.4 (6) 1.3 (175)
II. Parents
  Full questionnaire 52.4 (551)b 52.4 (5,703) 15.9 (237) 48.3 (6,491)
  Short-form
questionnaire
18.5 (195)b 16.0 (1,744) 3.7 ( 55) 14.8 (1,994)
  Either 70.9 (746) 68.4 (7,447) 19.6 (292) 63.0 (8,485)
    (n) (1,052) (10,892) (1,488) (13,432)
a

Twenty-five of the household survey respondents were not students. The remaining 879 are students.

b

Fifteen of the parents who completed a questionnaire (8 full questionnaire, 7 short-form questionnaire) were the parents of adolescents who were not students.