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Membership in Narcotics Anonymous is voluntary ; no attendance records are kept either for NA ’ s own purposes or for others.

Because of this, it is sometimes difficult to provide interested parties with comprehensive information about NA membership.

There are, however, some objective measures that can be shared based on data obtained from members attending one of NA world conventions ; the diversity of membership, especially ethnic background, seems to be representative of the geographic location of the survey.

The following demographic information was revealed in a survey returned by almost half of the 13, 000 attendees at the 2003 NA World Convention held in San Diego, California: