-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - 3 - Frequency of A.A. meetings. Members of the population attended meetings an average of about 2.9 times per week. In Appendix C the way in which this number is derived from the sample result is presented. Needless to say, the sample result is heavily biased by those who attend meetings often. Addiction to Drugs. About 46% of the sample indicated a problem with drugs in addition to their alcoholism. The age dependence of this characteristic is very strong, creating a significant cross-correlation between drug problems and the tendency to sttend meetings more often. Thus, the kind of correction described in detail in Appendix C does make a slight difference, and the prevalence of past drug addiction in the population is about 42 percent. Drug addiction is most prevalent among young members. In the older age groups women are significantly more prone to this problem than men. Occupations. Respondents were asked to classify themselves according to standard employment categories with the following results: OCCUPATION OF RESPONDENTS Manager or adminstrator (except farm) 12.8% Operative (except transportation) 1.4% Service Worker (except private households) 5.3% Transportation equipment operative 2.2% Professional or technical worker 22.9% Housewife or homemaker 5.1% Private household worker 0.7% Farm laborer or foreman 0.5% Farmer or farm manager 0.5% Sales worker 5.9% Craft worker 5.0% Student 4.0% Disabled 3.1% Military 0.7% Retired 7.7% Unemployed 6.7% Clerical worker 5.5% Laborer (except farm) 6.6% Other 4.8% Changes from Previous Surveys. The proportions relating to a few of these factors have changed substantially over the 12-year period reviewed here. This includes large increases in the proportion of young people, of people coming from rehabs, and people citing past drug dependence as well as alcoholism. Graphical representations of these trends are among the graphs given in Appendix B. Other factors which have remained constant or changed slightly are the average sobriety, the proportion of women, and the frequency of attendence at meetings. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQk60mrw9MOKEeRC8EQJYywCgyZHeBmUKQ4I69xvF63YX5TYkHFUAoIG4 SU2YskQ79FoCpv/6dQHUSE5k =AyIY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----