What is it about?
This paper provides more accurate estimates of the participation rates of illegal drug consumption obtained from large scale survey data, taking into account the likely under-reporting of such.
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Why is it important?
The paper provides techniques to adjust observed participation rates in illegal drugs from sample data for under-reporting. It is important that under-reporting is taken into account, as otherwise the true extent of the illegal drug taking problem would be masked.
Perspectives
This paper provides a general framework for handling mis-reporting in survey data, whilst also providing adjusted/true participation for cannabis, amphetamines and cocaine in Australia
Professor Mark Norman Harris
Curtin University
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This page is a summary of: Modelling illegal drug participation, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), November 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12252.
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