README Combined Engs and Hanson data files 1982-1994 from for student alcohol, knowledge, behavior and attitudes README FILE FOR Ruth Engs for data sets containing both Ruth Engs' and David Hanson's data collection from basic health and sociology classes respectively that had a probability of having students from all majors and different regions of the nation. Note: The data bases to compare matched schools over time are located at: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/23428 Created by: Professor Emerita Ruth Clifford Engs during August 2021 Dept. Applied Health Science School of Public Health Rm 116 1025 E. 7th St. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-4801 engs@iu.edu http://alcohol.iu.edu Researchers: Ruth C. Engs, Applied Health Sciences, SPH Indiana University, Bloomington, In David J. Hanson, Dpt. of Sociology, SUNY, Potsdam, NY collected half of the data. I. Dataset history Over five time periods beginning in 1982 an extending into 1995 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 attitude scale was eliminated as it did not have high reliability. 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, 100500 thousand, over 500 thousand) and from all 50 states. When examining variables overtime, the same or similar schools were matched. Demographic and alcohol related behaviors, knowledge and attitudes variables can be found in the questionnaires located in another section of IUScholarworks: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17141 The enghan94 data was also used for the American sample of students from Irish and Scottish backgrounds compared to Irish and Scottish students. Questionnaires at: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17208 ENG82HAN to ENGHAN91 were rewritten innto ENGHAN94 format for ease of compaison II. File List This folder contains: ./ENG82HAN - combined 1982 and 1983 Engs and Hanson total data ./ENG85HAN - combined 1984 and 1985 Engs and Hanson total data ./ENG87HAN - combined 1987 and 1988 Engs and Hanson total data ./ENG91HAN - combined 1990 and 1991 Engs and Hanson total data ./ENGHAN94 - combined 1993 and 1994 Engs and Hanson total data ./README - this current file that documents the entire dataset. ./BRIEF READ - how to read and identify Engs and Hanson's data variables III. Specifics of data Data were migrated from paper format in the following order: Paper surveys > Control Data Corporation (CDC) main frame computer > Unix mainframe > CD-Rom, PCs and other data storage devices. All data created in SPSS (software versions from 1983-1996), were transferred to Unix via SPSS for Unix. Raw data were responses to questionnaires, submitted on paper. The questionnaire information was entered onto punch cards from 1975 through the early 1980s and then into the computer by work study students at Indiana University. Some examples of the raw analog data are in Engs’ papers in the Indiana University Archives, but the rest were destroyed. **Please note that due to change in technology that went from paper cards to magnetic tapes to a "mainframe computer," or computer server and personal computer, some data bases were lost or corrupted with extraneous special characters. Some databases were able to be reformatted to eliminate these characters by IUSW staff including Stacy Konkiel and Ethan Fridmanski. These data bases were retrieved in 2013 and 2021 from copies in a personal computer and may not accurately represent the data collected. Use data with caution in any calculations.** An output file was used to inform data for the publications. IV. Publications and presentations from this data. Numerous articles, book chapters, and presentations, were published or delivered from these databases over almost two decades. Representative samples can be found at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/16829