 | Description & Citation--Study No. 21540 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 21540 |
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| | | Title: | Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 2006 |
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| | | Alternate Title: | TEDS, 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: | Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) 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.
TREATMENT EPISODE DATA SET (TEDS), 2006 [Computer file]. Prepared by
Synectics for Management Decisions, Incorporated. ICPSR21540-v2. Ann
Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research [producer and distributor], 2008-05-07. |
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| | | | Summary: | The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is an administrative
data system providing descriptive information about the national flow
of admissions to providers of substance abuse treatment. The TEDS
series was designed to provide annual data on the number and
characteristics of persons admitted to public and private substance
abuse treatment programs receiving public funding. The unit of
analysis is treatment admissions. TEDS includes both Minimum Data Set
(MDS) data (required reporting) and Supplemental Data Set (SuDS) data
(optional reporting), as reported to state substance abuse agencies by
the treatment programs. Additional variables, such as calculated age
and census region, are added to the state data. TEDS provides
information on service setting, number of prior treatments, primary
source of referral, employment status, whether methadone was
prescribed in treatment, diagnosis codes, presence of psychiatric
problems, living arrangements, source of income, health insurance,
expected source of payment, substance(s) abused, route of
administration, frequency of use, age at first use, pregnancy and
veteran status, health insurance, and days waiting to enter treatment.
Substances abused include alcohol, cocaine and crack, marijuana and
hashish, heroin, nonprescription methadone, other opiates and
synthetics, PCP, hallucinogens, methamphetamine, other amphetamines,
other stimulants, benzodiazepines, other tranquilizers, barbiturates,
other sedatives or hypnotics, inhalants, over-the-counter medications,
and other. Demographic variables cover age, race, gender, income,
marital status, and education. Created variables include total number
of substances reported, intravenous drug use (IDU), and flags for any
mention of specific substances. The public-use files were created
using the data that were current as o f October 2007 (the October 9,
2007, extract). |
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| | | Subject Term(s): | alcohol abuse, drug abuse, drug treatment, health care services, health insurance, intervention, mental health, pregnant, state level, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, treatment programs |
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| | | Smallest Geographic Unit: | Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) |
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| | | Time Period: | 2006 |
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| | | Date(s) of Collection: | 2006 |
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| | | Unit of Observation: | treatment admissions |
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| | | Universe: | Treatment admissions to substance abuse treatment programs
in the United States receiving public funds. Treatment programs
receiving any public funds are requested to provide TEDS data on
publicly- and privately-funded clients. There are some instances,
however, in which information is provided only for clients whose
treatment is funded through public monies. |
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| | | Data Type: | administrative records data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | (1) Several limitations to the data exist and should
be noted prior to using the TEDS files: (a) States continually review
the quality of their data processing. As states identify systematic
errors, they may revise or replace historical TEDS data files. While
this system improves the dataset over time, reported historical
statistics may change slightly from year to year. This public-use file
was created from the October 9, 2007, extract. (b) The way an
admission is defined may vary from state to state such that the
absolute number of admissions is not a valid measure for comparing
states. (c) The number and client mix of TEDS records depends, to some
extent, on external factors, including the availability of public
funds. In states with higher funding levels, a larger percentage of
the substance-abusing population may be admitted to treatment,
including the less severely impaired and the less economically
disadvantaged. (d) Public funding constraints may direct states to
selectively target special populations -- for example, pregnant women
or adolescents. The representations of these populations in the data
may vary accordingly. (e) States vary in the extent to which coercion
plays a role in referral to treatment. This variation derives from
criminal justice practices and differing concentrations of abuser
subpopulations. (f) TEDS consists of treatment admissions, and
therefore may include multiple admissions for the same client. Thus,
any statistics derived from the data will represent admissions, not
clients. It is possible for clients to have multiple initial
admissions within a state and even within providers that have multiple
treatment sites within the state. TEDS provides a national snapshot of
what is seen at admission to treatment, but is currently not designed
to follow individual clients through a sequence of treatment episodes.
(g) TEDS distinguishes between "transfer admissions" and "initial
admissions." Transfer admissions include clients transferred for
distinct services within an episode of treatment. Only initial
admissions are included in the public-use file. (2) It should be noted
that the categories and codes in this public-use file differ somewhat
from those used by SAMHSA and those found in the "State-by-State
Crosswalk of State System Data to TEDS" and in other reports. This is
a result of the recoding that was performed to protect client privacy
in creating the public-use file. (3) To further protect respondent and
provider privacy, all Drug and Alcohol Services Information System
(DASIS) unique identification numbers have been removed from the
public-use data. Therefore, no linkages are possible between the TEDS
and National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)
public-use files. (4) ICPSR created a series of TEDS state indicator
variables that can be used in analyses to compare a particular state
with all other states. These variables are available for analysis or
subsetting through the SAMHDA online analysis system only. See the
codebook for details on downloading these variables and merging them
with the archive (ASCII) data file. (5) Users should consult the
"Crosswalk" for a breakdown of the data collected in each state and
their corresponding TEDS codes, including state-by-state descriptions
of exceptions or anomalies in reporting practices. The "Crosswalk" is
available as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file and may be
downloaded from the
SAMHDA
Web site (link). |
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| | | | Sample: | Data were collected on all clients entering treatment at
eligible treatment programs. Eligible programs are those receiving
public funds. The latest available inclusion rates are for 1997, in
which reported admissions to TEDS facilities represented 83 percent of
the TEDS-eligible admissions and 67 percent of the total known
admissions. |
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| | | Data Source: | Administrative records from substance abuse treatment
programs as reported to state substance abuse agencies. |
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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 LRECL, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| | | Restrictions: | Users are reminded by the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 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
organizations. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 2008-02-15 |
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| | | Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2008-05-07. |
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| 2008-05-07 - Cases in the data file were sorted
according to CASEID. |
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