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Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

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⇒ envelopes with stamp <strong>and</strong> address to make easier the return<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the survey bypost.–Pollster tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g:It is convenient to select young people as pollsters, with an appearance that fits withthe disco atmosphere. We can establish two <strong>in</strong>terviewer categories:⇒ pollsters that may have previous experience as pollster.⇒ pollsters who don’t have previous experience but who know the disco atmosphere<strong>and</strong> have lots <strong>of</strong> possible contacts.In both cases the responsible <strong>of</strong> the project <strong>in</strong> each country have to have somemeet<strong>in</strong>gs with them to talk about the questionnaire, how to approach to the polled,doubts that they could have <strong>and</strong> so on. The customary pollsters control systems haveto be used.It can be very useful that, at the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the study, the responsible <strong>of</strong> the projectgo <strong>in</strong> some occasion with the pollster, to have a direct experience <strong>of</strong> the difficulties sothat he/she will be able to <strong>in</strong>troduce variations <strong>in</strong> the way <strong>of</strong> obta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the data.–Anonymity: the responsible <strong>of</strong> the project <strong>in</strong> each country has to guarantee theanonymity rights accord<strong>in</strong>g to the laws <strong>of</strong> each country.–What a control group is:The control group serves to compare the <strong>social</strong> <strong>representation</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the users <strong>and</strong> the notuser <strong>of</strong> Ecstasy. To be compared, these two groups (consumers <strong>and</strong> not consumers)have to be as similar as possible, except <strong>in</strong> the use <strong>of</strong> <strong>ecstasy</strong>.The characteristics that will be useful for us to determ<strong>in</strong>e who must be part <strong>of</strong> thegroup control are:⇒ the sociodemographic scale that it is <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> the survey (sex, age, etc)⇒ the situation <strong>in</strong> which the polled is contacted (that is to say, situations <strong>of</strong> high,middle <strong>and</strong> low consumption).–Group control. There are two options to choose the group control• First option is to poll the <strong>ecstasy</strong> consumers as a first phase, make an analysis <strong>of</strong> theresults <strong>and</strong>, as a second phase, <strong>and</strong> accord<strong>in</strong>g to the criteria <strong>in</strong>dicated previously,contact with 80-100 <strong>in</strong>dividual that attend to the same discos <strong>and</strong> who do not take<strong>ecstasy</strong>.• Second option is to make the group control (poll the not <strong>ecstasy</strong> consumers) at thesame time as the experimental group, without hav<strong>in</strong>g a first analysis <strong>of</strong> the <strong>ecstasy</strong>consumers surveys. The second phase would consist <strong>in</strong> compar<strong>in</strong>g non <strong>ecstasy</strong>251

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