Description & Citation--Study No. 20004 |
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| ICPSR Study No.: | 20004 |
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Persistent URL:
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| Title: | National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006 [United States] |
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| Alternate Title: | N-SSATS, 2006 |
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| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies |
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| Series: | National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) Series |
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| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies |
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| Bibliographic Citation: | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies. NATIONAL SURVEY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT SERVICES (N-SSATS), 2006 [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. ICPSR20004-v1. Arlington, VA: Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc. [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-12-20. doi:10.3886/ICPSR20004 |
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| Summary: | The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services
(N-SSATS) is designed to collect information from all facilities in
the United States, both public and private, that provide substance
abuse treatment. N-SSATS provides the mechanism for quantifying the
dynamic character and composition of the United States substance abuse
treatment delivery system. The objectives of N-SSATS are to collect
multipurpose data that can be used to assist the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and state and local
governments in assessing the nature and extent of services provided
and in forecasting treatment resource requirements, to update SAMHSA's
Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), to analyze
general treatment services trends, and to generate the National
Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its online
Abuse Treatment Facility Locator equivalent, the
Substance Abuse Treatment
Facility Locator (link). Data are collected on topics including
ownership, services offered, primary focus (substance abuse, mental
health, both, general health, and other), hotline operation,
methadone/LAAM dispensing, languages in which treatment is provided,
type of treatment provided, number of clients (total and under age
18), number of beds, types of payment accepted, sliding fee scale,
special programs offered, facility accreditation and
licensure/certification, and managed care agreements. N-SSATS was
formerly titled the Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS). |
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| Subject Term(s): | alcohol abuse, drug abuse, drug treatment, health care services, intervention, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, treatment facilities, treatment programs |
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| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| Time Period: | 2006 |
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| Date(s) of Collection: | March 31, 2006 - October 3, 2006 |
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| Unit of Observation: | facility |
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| Universe: | All 17,143 active treatment facilities on the Inventory of
Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) at a point six weeks prior
to the survey reference date of March 31, 2006. Facilities added by
state substance abuse agencies or discovered during the first three
weeks of the survey were also included in the survey universe. |
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| Data Type: | survey data |
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| Data Collection Notes: | (1) Data were collected by Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, and prepared for release by Synectics
for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA. (2) N-SSATS is a
point-prevalence survey. It provides information on the substance
abuse treatment system and its clients on the reference date (March
31, 2006). Client counts do not represent annual totals. Rather,
N-SSATS provides a "snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities
and clients on an average day. (3) N-SSATS collects data about
facilities, not individual clients. Data on clients represent an
aggregate of clients in treatment for each reporting facility. (4)
N-SSATS attempts to obtain responses from all known treatment and
prevention facilities, but it is a voluntary survey. There is no
adjustment for the approximately 5 percent facility nonresponse. (5)
To protect the privacy of respondents, financial data originally
collected have been removed from the public use file. These
modifications should not affect most analytic uses of the public use
file. |
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| Sample: | The Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services
(I-SATS) provides the sampling frame for N-SSATS. Two categories of
treatment facilities in I-SATS may be distinguished. The largest group
of facilities includes those that are licensed, certified, or
otherwise approved by the state substance abuse agency to provide
substance abuse treatment. The second group represents the SAMHSA
effort in recent years to make I-SATS as comprehensive as possible by
including treatment facilities that state substance abuse agencies,
for a variety of reasons, do not license or certify. Many of these
facilities are private, for-profit, small group practices, or
hospital-based programs. |
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| Mode of Data Collection: | mail questionnaire |
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| telephone interview |
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| web-based survey |
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| Response Rates: | N-SSATS questionnaires were mailed to a total of
17,143 facilities believed to offer substance abuse treatment
services. Of these facilities, 11.9 percent were found to be
ineligible for the survey because they had closed or were not
providing substance abuse treatment on March 31, 2006. Of the
remaining 15,109 facilities, 96.6 percent (14,577) completed the
survey. However, 401 of these facilities were deemed to be out of
scope, and an additional 405 facilities reported client counts
included in or "rolled into" other facilities's counts and whose
facility characteristics were not reported separately. Therefore, the
final sample size was 13,771 (91.1 percent). The percentage of
respondents who completed the mail survey was 40.7, while 22.7 percent
completed the survey via telephone, and 36.6 percent completed the
survey using a Web-based questionnaire. |
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| Extent of Processing: | CONCHK.PR/ UNDOCCHK.PR/ MDATA.PR/ RECODE/
FREQ.ICPSR/ REFORM.DATA/ CONCHK.ICPSR/ UNDOCCHK.ICPSR/ DDEF.ICPSR/
REFORM.DOC |
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| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the
summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| Restrictions: | Users are reminded by the United States Department of
Health and Human Services that these data are to be used solely for
statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information and not
for the investigation of specific individuals or treatment
facilities. |
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| Original ICPSR Release: | 2007-12-20 |
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| Dataset(s): | - DS1: National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006 [United States]
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