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Figure 148: Age-gender-adjusted percentage of pupils reporting they had ever used or
tried drugs, by deprivation quintile (years 9 to 11 only)
16%
14%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
Most deprived 2 3 4 Least deprived
In the 2008-09 Health and Lifestyle Survey the format of the questions on drug use was
changed from those used in the previous survey. Pupils were first asked (question 66)
whether anyone had offered or encouraged them to try any drugs in the last three
months. If the answer was yes, pupils were asked in question 67 to tick which drugs
they had been offered or encouraged to try, from a list of 9 different types of drugs. If
the answer to question 66 was no, they were asked to skip to question 68. This
question asked whether they had ever used or tried any drugs. If they answered yes to
question 68 pupils were asked to answer question 69, which listed the 9 types of drugs
again, with tick boxes against each one for when the drug was last used or tried. Again,
if pupils ticked no to question 68 they were asked to skip to question 70.
In the 2002 survey the two filter questions outlined above were not asked, so all pupils
were asked to answer the questions on the types of drugs they had been offered or
encouraged to try in the last three months and on the types of drugs they had used or
tried, each with a list of 17 different types of drugs.
A comparison of the two surveys (restricting to those aged 15 years and under) in Table
158 shows a steep fall in the percentages of pupils in years 7 to 10 reporting they had
been offered or encouraged to try drugs in the last three months, decreasing by 64% in
boys 65% in girls.
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