2006 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Survey Participation

In the Franklin County Schools, 81,608 students in grades six through twelve completed questionnaires. Participation by district is found in Table A of Section 5 of this report. After using a Questionable-Response (QR) filter, 78,333 surveys were included for the analyses in this report. The QR filter identifies students who may have been exaggerating or careless in their response patterns. For example, the questionnaire of any student claiming to have used “dactyls” (a bogus substance) within the past year was eliminated from analyses. Also eliminated was the questionnaire of any student claiming to be in a grade not served by the school being surveyed (grade 12 in a middle-school, for instance). A QR point was “awarded” for the following inconsistencies: claiming an ageof- first-use much higher than appropriate for the grade in school, claiming to be drunk much more than claiming to drink; claiming not to have used a substance on the age-of-first-use item while claiming regular use of that substance on another item; claiming to drive after drinking (or smoking marijuana) much more often than claiming to drink (or smoke). Two or more QR points based on these criteria were cause to eliminate a survey from analyses. In the Franklin County Schools, 3,275 questionnaires (4.0 percent) were excluded from the final data set because of two or more QR points.

Tables and graphics included with this report show students’ response patterns to PPAAUS items. For those interested in more indepth information, Section 5 contains frequencies of response by grade and gender for every PPAAUS item. A copy of PPAAUS is included with this report in Section 6.

To maintain consistency through the narrative reports of all schools and districts participating in the 2006 PPAAUS survey, “middleschool” refers to sixth through eighth grades and “high-school” refers to ninth through twelfth grades.

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