National Survey Trends on Impaired Driving 2002-2014

2002 to 2014 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health assesses trends in driving under the influence of alcohol or illicit drugs. The report analyzes behavior among individuals aged 16 or older in the United States, segmented by age and gender.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in impaired driving behavior by age and gender cohorts over the 2002-2014 period.
• Assess correlations between substance use categories (alcohol and illicit drugs) and driving incidents.
• Model demographic risk factors for impaired driving using age and gender variables from the survey.

Strengths

• Data spans 13 years (2002-2014) of national survey collection.
• Analysis is segmented by specific demographic variables: age and gender.
• Source is the authoritative National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Limitations

• Underlying dataset rows and columns are unknown; only a summary report in HTML format is provided.
• Data is not the raw survey dataset but a processed analysis, limiting direct modeling applications.
• Temporal coverage ends in 2014, which may not reflect current trends.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Collection Method

National survey data collection.

Time Range

2002 to 2014.

Freshness

Report metadata was updated in September 2025, but the underlying data covers up to 2014.

Geography

United States.