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For the following proposed research studies, determine whether the researcher should gather data from the Uniform Crime Report, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), or the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey.

A researcher is attempting to determine the prevalence of drug use among individuals who currently reside on college campuses.

1. A MSU student is interested in providing a chart in her class paper that shows the violent crime rate in Springfield from 1970 to 2012.

2. A criminologist would like to see the long-term emotional and physical impact that domestic violence has on victims.

3. A social psychologist plans on investigating police reports to determine the nature of the relationship between perpetrator and victim in rape cases.

4. After investigating the research plan outlined in question # 4, the same social psychologist decides to focus on the relationship between offender and victim in rape cases that were not reported to the police.

5. A public health official is interested in determining the prevalence of tobacco use among high school students.

6. A criminologist is interested in the total number of property and violent crimes reported to the police in the United States for all of 2010.