survey

GilJae Yeo
EAP1 A
Survey

Drinking Age Survey

1. Introduction

Do you drink alcohol? How often do you drink alcohol? Have you drunk alcohol under 21 years old? What is your opinion? Today scientists know that drinking is not good for your health. It causes some serious diseases such as gastric cancer and liver cancer. Now so many underage people drink while they go to high school or university.
In “Alcohol use by persons under the legal drinking age of 21” the author claims that “During this time of social and developmental change, many young people also experiment with alcohol, although all States have had a legal drinking age of 21 since 1988” (2003, p. 1). It causes some serious problems such as drunken driving and fights with other people. Sometimes people die from drinking too much. So, there is no big difference between adults’ drinking and young people’s drinking. As a result, drinker health is affect by drinking alcohol. Many underage people are drinking alcohol, but they have not completely grown up psychologically.

2. Purpose

Our group, EAP1 A, decided to find out why underage people want to drink alcohol. I wanted to examine the relationship between gender and when people start drinking. Also, I wanted to know the relationship between age and abstaining from drinking if people have a serious disease.

3. Hypotheses

I had three hypotheses about drinking age. First, I believed that males would say they started drinking earlier than females. Next, I believed that males would feel underage drinking should be allowed. Third, I believed that some people would say that underage people should not drink alcohol.

4. Methods and Procedures

Our group was supposed to ask forty-nine people who are different gender and age in Carbondale to find out different ideas. In addition, we decided to ask SIUC students. We prepared a survey that has nine questions. Those questions were mostly yes or no questions, so it was easy for respondents to answer the questions.

5.Data + Chart
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6. Results

Actually, females began said they to drink sooner than males. Forty-one out of forty-nine (83.6%) drink out of SIUC students; twenty-two out of twenty-five males (88%) drink and nineteen out of twenty-four females (86.3%) drink alcohol. There were only a few binge drinkers in the survey result. 89.7% students started drinking when they were under 20 years old; females started drinking sooner than males, when they were under 18 years old. Most students (84.7%) think that too much drinking is not a problem in Carbondale. The last result was about lowering age to be able to drink, but over half of students (69.3%) did not agree that drinking age should be lowered.

7. Conclusion and Discussion

I believed that men would say they started to drink alcohol earlier than women. However, it was not true, because our survey showed that a number of females started to drink earlier than males, before 18 years old. I was surprised at that fact, because I thought boys were more curious and more interested in drinking than girls. Also, I was surprised that 55.1% of people who were 13 years old to 18 years old answered that they had started drinking. However, it was not surprising to me that 66.7% of people experienced drinking before 20 years old, because they sometimes drink when they want to make a friend or when they want to know other people. While I expected that both men and women would answer that drinking should be lowered to 18 years old, over half of people appealed a against changing the drinking age.

If I could do this survey another time, I would like to ask younger people, because now young people make a problem. Also, if I ask younger people, I will be able to get a different opinion from university students’ opinions about drinking. I want to write “Do you have fight to other people when you have drunken?” at the make question because when people are drunk, it will make a serious problem. Therefore, next time I would like to ask this question.

8. Reference

Alcohol Use by Persons Under the Legal Drinking Age of 21. (2003, May 9). The NHSDA Report. Retrieved Feb. 26, 2008 from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k3/UnderageDrinking/UnderageDrinking.htm

9. Appendix

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10. Appendix 2

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