CARIBBEAN OBSERVATORIES CARIBBEAN OBSERVATORIES MEETINGMEETING

BRIDGETOWN BRIDGETOWN BARBADOSBARBADOS

14 – 16 JUNE 14 – 16 JUNE 20052005

PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES

DRUG SURVEY GRENADA

2004

OBJECTIVE

A ‘Public Service Employee Drug Survey’ was

conducted to establish a database necessary to

determine the prevalence and incidence of drug

use among public service employees in the

state of Grenada.

METHODOLOGY

A census of all employees of the

PUBLIC SERVICE

was pursued.

Statutory Bodies and Agencies were excluded.

Coordination

Supervision

Staff of the Ministry of Finance,

Statistical Department

Staff of the Drug Control Secretariat

DATA COLLECTION

CHALLENGES

• Collecting data from employees who are field officers• Employees who were on sick leave or vacation• Employees who were late for work• Employees who were reluctant to give drug related data• Information was not given about the survey• Some supervisors were not interested in the survey so

employees were not motivated• Various departments scattered in several locations

DATA ENTRY

• Data entry personnel were trained

• Double entry

• Excel

PRELIMINARY

RESULTS

POPULATION COMPOSITIONPOPULATION COMPOSITION

SEX Frequency

Male 552

Female 1117

Not stated 173

TOTAL 1842

AGE/GENDER RELATIONAGE/GENDER RELATIONAGE Male (%) Female (%) Total (%)

Less than 20 years

24.3 28.6 32.8

21 to 30 years 27.2 29.2 26.2

31 to 40 years 25.5 22.2 21.5

41 to 50 years 17.8 15.8 15.3

51 + years 5.2 4.2 4.2

TOTAL 100.0 100.0 100.0

POSITION AT THE WORKPLACE BY GENDERPOSITION AT THE WORKPLACE BY GENDER

POSITION

AT THE WORKPLACE

Male (%) Female (%) TOTAL

Executive 2.4 2.8 50

Management 13.2 7.4 176

Professional 58.2 64.1 1120

Service worker/sales

11.2 12.1 222

Unskilled 0.9 1.1 19

Skilled tradesman

3.8 2.6 58

Not stated 10.3 9.9 196

LEVEL OF EDUCATION BY GENDERLEVEL OF EDUCATION BY GENDERLEVEL OF EDUCATION

Male (%) Female (%) Frequency

Incomplete primary 1.1 0.7 15

Complete primary 2.4 3.8 70

Incomplete secondary

2.9 1.5 39

Complete secondary 21.2 21.4 388

Incomplete vocational/technical

3.1 0.7 31

Complete vocational/technical

12.9 11.1 212

Incomplete higher 11.8 10.6 201

Complete higher 36.2 38.7 684

Not stated 8.5 11.5 202

TOTAL 100 100 1842

POLICY ON DRUGS AT THE WORKPLACEPOLICY ON DRUGS AT THE WORKPLACE

POLICY Frequency

Yes 588

No 466

Don’t know 670

Not stated 118

TOTAL 1842

LIFETIME PREVALENCELIFETIME PREVALENCETOBACCOTOBACCO

SMOKED FREQUENCY

YES 497

NO 1309

NOT STATED 39

TOTAL 1842

LIFETIME PREVALENCELIFETIME PREVALENCEALCOHOLALCOHOL

DRANK ALCOHOL

FREQUENCY

YES 1400

NO 305

NOT STATED 137

TOTAL 1842

QUESTIONS

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