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    • 2008 National Survey of Drinking and Driving Attitudes and Behaviors

    Metadata Updated: September 17, 2025

    The 2008 National Survey of Drinking and Driving Attitudes and Behaviors was composed of a single questionnaire administered to a sample of randomly selected individuals 16 and older, with ages 16 through 24 over-sampled. The respondents were asked about their drinking behavior, their drinking and driving behavior, use of designated drivers, their hosting events in which drinking occurred, risks they perceive associated with drinking and driving, experience with anti-DWI enforcement activity, and their attitudes concerning major intervention strategies.The survey was administered from September 10, 2008 to December 22, 2008. A total of 6,999 respondents completed the survey, including 5,392 landline interviews and 1,607 cell phone interviews. The total number of completed interviews for each of the four Census regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) was 1,409, 1,654, 2,390, and 1,546, respectively.

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    References

    https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/811343.pdf

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 17, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 17, 2025
    Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier DOT-1637
    Data First Published 2010-08-31
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-15
    Category Transportation Impaired Driving Attitudes and Behaviors
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Agencydataseriesurl http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/other/2008survey/drinkdrive_2008.sas7bdat
    Agencyprogramurl https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures/countermeasures-that-work
    Bureau Code 021:18
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Categorydesignation Research
    Collectioninstrument Transportation
    Collection Metadata true
    Harvest Object Id 7413ba65-5eee-4370-8771-105afdcf9944
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/mkvy-hv4q
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Old Spatial n/a
    Phone 202-366-6401
    Program Code 021:032
    Related Documents https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/811343.pdf
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8861139ca4359611a35a5b14cd1c45cbf2d238cb45faaf1a33f176086fc91108
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2008-09-10/2008-12-22

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