README FILE FOR Ruth Engs' for the 1981 and the 1993 Student Alcohol Questionnaire and David Hanson's Alcohol Attitudes Questiionnaire. Data collected from the 1993 questionaire were used for matched colleges from each time period between 1981 and 1994 for which data were collected. The 1993 questionnaire asked subjects with Scottish or Irish ancestry to note this and were compared with Scottish and Irish students. Created by: Dr. Ruth Clifford Engs during July 2021 Dept. Applied Health Science SPH Building Rm 116 1025 E. 7th St. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-4801 engs@indiana.edu http://alcohol.iu.edu Researchers Ruth C. Engs, Applied Health Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, In David J. Hanson, Dpt. of Sociology, SUNY, Potsdam, NY collected half of the data. I. Questionnaire history Over five time periods beginning in 1982 and extending into 1994, data were collected from students around the United States at various colleges and universities. Instructors teaching health education or sociology courses were asked to administer the "Student Alcohol Questionnaire," and the "Alcohol Attitudes Questionnaire" during the first three time periods. In the later time periods other scales were added such as the "Codependency Scale (CODE)" and the "Student Health and Lifestyle Questionnaire" to gain additional material to test other hypotheses. The questionnaires gathered by Engs and Hanson, after they had been coded into the mainframe computer, were combined to form the total database for the academic collection years. Colleges were selected to represent the proportions of students attending four-year institutions of higher learning based on the "Yearbook of Higher Education" in terms of public or private (religiously affiliated as well as non-affiliated) ethnic mixtures, enrollments over and under 10,000, location in various community sizes (under 100,000, 100,500 thousand, over 500 thousand) and from all 50 states. To address various alcohol realted variables overtime, the same or equilavent colleges and universities were matched from each time period. For example, the same small Catholic college was selected for each time period. If it was not avaiable, another small Catholic college in the same region of the country, size of the community, etc. was selected. Data bases collected from these questionnaires are found in: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17140 II. File List This folder contains: ./ SAQ_AAQ 1981 ./ SAQ_AAQ 1993 ./README SAQ_AAQ 1981 and 1993 III. Specifics of data Paper Questionnaires were scanned into pdf files on flat bed scanners. Some examples of the questionnaires and how to code items are in Engs' papers in the Indiana University Archives. Numerous articles, book chapters, and presentations, were published or delivered from data derived from thesw questionnaires over almost three decades. Representative samples can be found at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/16829