PHDCN: Substance Use in Chicago Neighborhoods, 2000-2002

Over 6,000 children, adolescents, and young adults were followed in a longitudinal study by Harvard University's Felton J. Earls. The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods examined influences on antisocial behavior. This component, Wave 3 from 2000-2002, contains self-reported data on specific drug use from five age cohorts.

Use Cases

• Modeling risk factors for substance use initiation based on longitudinal cohort data.
• Analyzing neighborhood effects on adolescent development mentioned in the study description.
• Studying the correlation between family, peer, and school influences and specific drug use.
• Examining age-cohort differences in substance use patterns across five distinct age groups.

Strengths

• Longitudinal design tracking over 6,000 subjects across multiple time points.
• Data collection covers five distinct age cohorts (6, 9, 12, 15, and 18).
• Interdisciplinary study measuring individual, family, peer, and school influences.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for this specific wave is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias specific to Chicago from 2000-2002.

Provenance

Source

Harvard University, Felton J. Earls

Collection Method

Longitudinal Cohort Study with self-report interviews

Time Range

2000-2002

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA