U.S. Illegal Drug User Expenditure Estimates, 1988-2000

United States data on consumer spending for illegal drugs over a 13-year period. The dataset likely contains annual estimates of expenditure amounts, potentially broken down by drug type or demographic factors. It is hosted on PapersWithCode, suggesting a focus on computational social science or economics research.

Use Cases

• Modeling temporal trends in illicit drug market size (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Analyzing correlations between drug expenditure and other economic or social indicators (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking policy impact studies on substance abuse (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on PapersWithCode, a platform for datasets associated with research.
• Covers a defined 13-year time range from 1988 to 2000.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• License is listed as 'closed', which may restrict usage.

Provenance

Source

PapersWithCode

Collection Method

Unknown; likely compiled from government or research estimates.

Time Range

1988-2000

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

United States