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ESPAD is a collaborative effort of independent research teams in more than forty European countries and the largest cross-national research project on adolescent substance use in the world.<\/p>\n
The overall aim with the project is\u00a0to repeatedly collect comparable data on substance use among 15-16 year old students in as many European countries as possible.<\/p>\n
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[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”||20px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]In this way, you will be able to formulate a punctual request of the ESPAD data of your interest during the compilation of the Application form by using the variables’ naming adopted in the Codebook. Please, do not use ESPAD questionnaires to indicate variable names, when filling in the form.<\/span><\/i>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The variables “School” and “Class” are not released for protection issues. However, considering the increasing request by the applicants, we decided to provide correspondent ‘cluster variables’ when requested, which will be generated independently for each request. This will ensure the database integrity and protection.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n If requested in a specific application, the following variables will be provided:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cESPAD Cluster School\u201d = Random Number Identifying Students belong to the same School – Clustering: ESPAD_Year, Country and School<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cESPAD Cluster Class\u201d = Random Number Identifying Students belong to the same Class – Clustering: ESPAD_Year, Country, School and Class<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cESPAD Cluster Level\u201d = Random Number Compute using variables: ESPAD_Year, Country, School and Class.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n According to the ESPAD rules for data use by ESPAD Researchers and NON-ESPAD Researchers,\u00a0<\/span>2024<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>ESPAD data can be requested by ESPAD PIs only.\u00a0After the embargo period (NOVEMBER 2027<\/span>) it will be possible to request data of all ESPAD years included in the TREND DB 1995-2024<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n The submitted applications will be quarterly evaluated \u2013 in March, June, September, December.\u00a0After the validation phase by the ESPAD Application Committee, an e-mail notification will be sent to you about whether or not your ESPAD data request is accepted and about the instructions to download the required dataset.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Market Information Title Area” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_margin=”|auto|-1px|auto||” custom_padding=”0px|0px|2px|0px||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Lato||||||||” header_2_font_size=”36px” header_2_line_height=”1.5em” custom_padding=”|||” animation_direction=”left” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.8em” header_font=”||||||||” animation_style=”flip” animation_direction=”left” animation_intensity_flip=”20%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”]You can submit your ESPAD application by accessing the form on this website. 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Before compiling the online ESPAD Application Form, we suggest you to carefully examine the ESPAD Codebook you can download here<\/a>, which describes in detail the questions and variables collected in the different years of the study, according to the ESPAD TREND DATABASE 1995-2024 format.
<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nSubmit Application<\/h2>\n