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A telephone survey was conducted of 2250 adults and adolescents across the United States to understand perceptions of how American culture influences illegal drug use. A stratified random sampling method was used to collect data randomly from each state's area codes and telephone exchanges, ensuring representation from across the country. Using a Likert scale from 1 to 5 allowed respondents to indicate their level of agreement on influence of culture. However, using a convenience sample of just adolescents could produce results not generalizable to the overall population due to potential differences in perspectives.

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American Culture and Drug Abuse

A telephone survey was conducted of 2250 adults and adolescents across the United States to understand perceptions of how American culture influences illegal drug use. A stratified random sampling method was used to collect data randomly from each state's area codes and telephone exchanges, ensuring representation from across the country. Using a Likert scale from 1 to 5 allowed respondents to indicate their level of agreement on influence of culture. However, using a convenience sample of just adolescents could produce results not generalizable to the overall population due to potential differences in perspectives.

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Republic of the Philippines

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO STATE COLLEGE


Labangan, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro 5100
Website: www.omsc.edu.ph Email address: omsc_9747@yahoo.com
Tele/Fax: (043) 457-0259

College of Business Administration and Management

Cruz, Roniel F. Ms. Julie Antonette Lilagan


BSAIS 3-B September 28, 2021

Activity 1.3

American Culture and Drug Abuse

Assume you are a member of the Family Research Council and have become increasingly
concerned about the drug use by professional sports players. You set up a plan and conduct a
survey on how people believe the American culture (television, movies, magazines, and popular
music) influences illegal drug use. Your survey consists of 2250 adults and adolescents from
around the country. A consumer group petitions you for more information about your survey.
Answer the following questions about your survey.

1. What type of survey did you use (phone, mail, or interview)?


- A telephone survey was used. My survey method had the advantage of being a
relatively affordable survey method (though more expensive than utilizing the mail) that might
get a big response. My survey method has the disadvantage of not including anyone who does
not have access to a telephone.
2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the surveying methods you did not use?
-A mail survey also would have been fairly inexpensive, but my response rate may have
been much lower than what I got with my telephone survey. Interviewing would have allowed
me to use follow-up questions and to clarify any questions of the respondents at the time of the
interview. However, interviewing is very labor- and cost-intensive.
3. What type of scores did you use? Why?
-I used ordinal data on a scale of 1 to 5. The scores were 1 strongly disagree, 2 disagree, 3
neutral, 4 agree, 5 strongly agree.
4. Did you use a random method for deciding who would be in your sample?
-The random method that I used was a random dialing method.
5. Which of the methods (stratified, systematic, cluster, or convenience) did you use?
-To include people from each state, I used a stratified random sample, collecting data
randomly from each of the area codes and telephone exchanges available.
6. Why was that method more appropriate for this type of data collection?
-This method allowed me to make sure that I had representation from each area of the
United States.
7. If a convenience sample were obtained, consisting of only adolescents, how would the results
of the study be affected?
-Convenience samples may not be representative of the population, and a convenience
sample of adolescents would probably differ greatly from the general population with regard to
the influence of American culture on illegal drug use.

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