JOINT ACTION ON ALCOHOL WORK PACKAGE 4 (Population survey) PROGRESS IN PREPARATION

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JOINT ACTION ON ALCOHOLWORK PACKAGE 4
(Population survey)PROGRESS IN PREPARATION
Janusz Sieroslawski, Jacek Moskalewicz Institute
of Psychiatry and Neurology Warsaw

• Expert Group on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (ASA
  EG) NDPHS
• Fifth Working Meeting
• Kirkenes, 19-20 March, 2013

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PURPOSE

• To strengthen capacity in alcohol survey
  methodology and comparative analysis of drinking
  patterns and associated harm across Member States
  
• To further develop a standardised monitoring
  approach in order to provide basis for
  comparative assessment and monitoring of trends
  across EU Member States.

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Work Package 4

• Strand 1
• the use of the SMART instrument as a blueprint
  for collecting comparable data on drinking
  patterns and alcohol related harm across EU
  Member States.
• Strand 2
• pooling existing data on alcohol consumption and
  drinking patterns related harms from surveys
  carried out in Member States between 2008 and
  2012 and recoding the data into variables
  comparable to those measured in the SMART
  questionnaire.

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WP 4 Strand 1

• Joint work to refine the SMART survey methodology
• Conducting a population survey at the national
  level applying common SMART methodology
  (coverage national with option regional only
  population 18-64 with option 18, sample
  probabilistic, n 1500)
• Analysis and reporting at national level against
  a comparative background, as appropriate
• Developing a comparative report synthesising key
  findings from national SMART surveys and
  summarising methodological experiences and
  implications relating to methodology
• Developing policy-relevant conclusions and
  recommendations at the EU and national levels

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WP 4 Strand 2

• Pooling existing data from population surveys on
  alcohol consumption and drinking patterns and
  recoding it into variables comparable to those
  measured in the (refined) SMART questionnaire.
• Joint work to assess the comparability of the
  SMART methodology and some existing surveys to
  monitor alcohol consumption and drinking patterns
  at national level.
• Analysis of the pooled data and developing
  synthesising report, including discussion on
  benefits of comparison and limitations of
  comparability.
• Developing recommendations for future steps to
  improve comparability of survey data on alcohol
  across EU Member States.

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Progress to date

• Number of countries declaring participation in
  strand 1 (implementation of survey) 18
• Number of countries participating in strand 1
  with
• Budget ready 15
• Budget in process 3
• Countries implementing survey without JA funding
• Spain (Catalonia) JA collaborating partner
• Serbia drug survey funded by EMCDDA
• Russia (nord part) ?

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Survey partners
Nord Russia
JA budget ready JA budget in process
Other sources Survey completed
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2014 2015 2016










Refining SMART instrument
Implementing SMART survey
Analysis national reports
STRAND 1
Comparative report
Pooling and recoding data
Analysis of pooled data
Synthesis recommendations
Assessing comparability SMART data/pooled data
STRAND 2
Report on pooled data and comparison
Work meeting recommendations
(Work meetings)
(Expert meeting)
Work package coordination
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Planed meetings 1st strand

• Kick off meeting Lisbon (2014)
• Introduction, sharing the tasks
• 1st working meeting Warsaw (2014)
• Discussing methodology, preparing pilot study
• 2nd working meeting Munich (2014)
• Summarizing pilot results, adopting final
  methodology
• 3rd working meeting Budapest (2015)
• Summarizing implementation, preparing data
  processing
• 4th working meeting Barcelona (2015)
• discussing results, developing conclusions and
  recommendations
• Final conference Lisbon (2016)

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ASA EG Involvement

• Support in recruitment of countries to JA WP4
• Enabling Russia participation in survey exercise
• Project proposal for qualitative assessment of
  surveys methodology and reporting in ND Region
  submitted to NDPHS
• Separate report for ND Region
• comparisons within ND Region
• comparisons of ND Region with other regions

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Issues to be discussed

• The role of NDPHS in supporting of and benefiting
  from EU Join Action maybe collaborating partner
• How to include Russia
• question of funding
• definition of population (coverage)
• Time schedule