This is the final report for the Arizona Social Indicator Study and, as such, this report combines the following contract products:  Risk Monitoring Report Two, Project Final Performance Report, and the Final Summary Report.  This work was completed as part of a subcontract with the Arizona Department of Health services (ADHS), which is the agency that contracted with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for the prevention needs assessment.

In this report, we provided data for a specific set of social indicators that were selected by the SAMHSA.  When possible, data were collected for the years 1997 and 1999 and the prevalence of each of the social indicators was calculated for the 15 Arizona counties by year.  This report presented county-level data in tabular form as well as state maps to contrast the relative frequency of each indicator by county.  Overall risk profiles for each county were then developed to assist the county in reviewing their results.  Community profiles were developed for nine communities as a pilot project.  Also, preliminary work towards the development of summary risk indices was performed and included with this report.  Factor analyses were used to reduce the number of variables into clusters of risk factors that were based on the actual data obtained in Arizona.

This report includes data from both years of data collection. Since the last report, we have added variables, deleted variables that were inappropriate or no longer available, and refined data definitions. Also corrections to some of the data tables were made. Therefore, we request that you destroy any previous versions of this report that you may have, such as the Risk Monitoring Report One that was distributed in August, 2000. Please use this current document as the final and most accurate report.