Characteristics and social representation of ecstasy in Europe - Irefrea

This classification will be used from time to time during the present study when wewill need to know how some variables affects each one of the subgroups. But generallywe will use the classification of being consumers of ecstasy or not (control group).WAYS OF LIFE AND DRUG USENext, we will make a report of the collected data according to different ways of lifeof interviewed people. We will compare the data derived from the global samples(which means, every individual who answered the survey at discos and universities inthe five cities) of each city, considering all the people who answered the questionnairein that particular country. In order to facilitate its comprehension, we will show only thetables that we consider more interesting -often with a selection of the items where thedifferences can be better appreciated- and we will chose only some of the frequencies.ATTENDING BARS (%)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTOften and very often 84 37,4 61,7 67,2 55,1Young individuals from Coimbra (84%) are the ones who attend bars morefrequently, while young individuals from Modena (37,4%) are on the other end.ATTENDING DISCOS (%)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTOften and very often 72,5 39,6 60,2 41,1 44,5Once again, young people from Coimbra (72,5%) are the ones who, in our sample,more frequently attend discos and, on the other end, we find again young individualsfrom Modena (39,6%), although in this case, young people from Mallorca (41,1%) andUtrecht (44,5%) are closer to the Italian behaviour.ATTENDING “AFTERS” (%)COIMBRA MODENA NICE PALMA UTRECHTOften and very often 12,1 7,2 15,8 13,3 7Attending “afters”, places that open very late at night and close the followingmorning, is a habit above all for the young people in Nice, Palma de Mallorca andCoimbra, being less common in Modena and Utrecht samples.54