The National Alcohol Survey
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Welcome to the National Alcohol Survey
A 45-year-old ongoing survey series that gathers information on alcohol use in the US. Its goal is to inform policies and interventions that help reduce the harm that alcohol can cause so we can all live healthier, happier lives.
The National Alcohol Survey (NAS) has been going on for 45 years and is conducted about every five years. The NAS covers the adult general population of the US and asks a variety of questions about alcohol and health.
Repeated surveys like the NAS are vital for monitoring a country’s alcohol use patterns, problems, and trends, and revealing underlying mechanisms of harm. Surveys are unique from other kinds of measures of alcohol use in a population, like alcohol sales data, because they allow us to examine specific patterns of alcohol use, like binge drinking, how alcohol is being used in different groups, like women and people of color, and how these individual drinking patterns are associated with alcohol use disorders, and social and health-related harms.
The latest edition of the NAS (the 15th in the series) is about to begin! We will start data collection in early December of 2023, and continue throughout 2024. We will ask people to participate in the study by sending letters to their home and asking them to complete a survey online using a survey link unique to them. We will also recruit people who are part of survey web panels to join this study. They will receive an email from the web panel and will also be asked to complete the survey online using a unique survey link.
The latest edition of the NAS (the 15th in the series) is about to begin! We will start data collection in early December of 2023, and continue throughout 2024. We will ask people to participate in the study by sending letters to their home and asking them to complete a survey online using a survey link unique to them. We will also recruit people who are part of survey web panels to join this study. They will receive an email from the web panel and will also be asked to complete the survey online using a unique survey link.
