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1. The trends represent the available information on the national number of reports for drug law offences (criminal and non-criminal) reported by all law enforcement agencies in the EU Member States; all series are indexed to a base of 100 in 2003 and weighted by country population sizes to form an overall EU trend; the figures between brackets refer to the total number of offences as reported in 2008 (before weighting).
2. The general term 'reports for drug law offences' is used, since definitions and study units differ widely between countries. For definitions of the term 'reports for drug law offences', please refer to Drug law offences - methods and definitions.
3. Countries that in 2007 carried out changes in the information system likely to affect comparability across time ((Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Slovakia, and United Kingdom) as well as countries with missing data for two or more consecutive years are not included in the trend calculations: the overall trend is based on 21 countries (85 % of the EU population 15-64), the trend for both heroin and cocaine is based on 14 countries (71 % of the EU population 15-64), cannabis on 15 (74 % of the EU population 15-64), amphetamine on 10 (67 % of the EU population 15-64) and ecstasy on 12 (67 % of the EU population 15-64).
4. Additionally, where 2008 data are missing (1 case for cannabis, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine and ecstasy) 2007 data are used, for missing 2003 data (1 case for cannabis, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine and ecstasy) 2004 data are used.
5. Cyprus and Portugal were not included in the trend calculation for amphetamine, nor Luxembourg in the trend calculation for both amphetamine and ecstasy, due to low numbers in cases reported.
See also ‘General notes for interpreting data’ on the Explanatory notes and help page.
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Page last updated: Friday, 09 July 2010