Metadata record for National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2003

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2003 N-SSATS, 2003 United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2012-03-30 4099 doi://10.3886/ICPSR04099.v2

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, update SAMHSA's Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), analyze general treatment services trends, and generate the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its online equivalent, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator: http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov. Data are collected on topics including ownership, services offered (assessment, substance abuse therapy and counseling, pharmacotherapies, testing, transitional, ancillary), primary focus (substance abuse, mental health, both, general health, 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.

UniverseScheme04099 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00058. Organization04099_1 NAHDAP.I ICPSR.IX SAMHDA.XIII RCMD.V FENWAY.VI alcohol abuse drug abuse drug treatment health care services HIV intervention substance abuse substance abuse treatment treatment facilities treatment programs United States 2003 2003 facility survey data All 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, 2003. Facilities added by State substance abuse agencies or discovered during the first three weeks of the survey were also included in the survey universe. 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. 2003-03-31 2003-10-01

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.
Created variable labels and/or value labels.
Standardized missing values.
Created online analysis version with question text.
Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

N-SSATS questionnaires were mailed to a total of 17,787 facilities believed to offer substance abuse treatment services. Of these facilities, 15 percent were found to be ineligible for the survey because they had closed, were not providing substance abuse treatment on March 31, 2003, or treated incarcerated clients only. Of the remaining 15,124 facilities, 95.9 percent (14,503) completed the survey. However, 880 of these facilities were deemed to be out-of-scope or had client counts reported by another facility but no facility information. Therefore, the final sample size was 13,623 (90 percent). Forty-nine percent of respondents completed the mail survey, 24 percent completed the survey via telephone, and 27 percent completed the survey using a Web-based questionnaire. ICPSR

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.

AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies 2012-03-30 ICPSR 2012-03-30 Updated the queston text to fix minor typographical errors previously present. Also, updated the variable order so that it coincides with the questionnaire order and is consistent with other years in the N-SSATS series. 2005-11-04 ICPSR 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. StudyUnit04099

Data were collected by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, and prepared for release by Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA.

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N-SSATS is a point-prevalence survey. It provides information on the substance abuse treatment system and its clients on the reference date. Client counts do not represent annual totals. Rather, N-SSATS provides a "snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients on an average day.

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N-SSATS collects data about facilities, not individual clients. Data on clients represent an aggregate of clients in treatment for each reporting facility.

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N-SSATS attempts to obtain responses from all known treatment and prevention facilities, but it is a voluntary survey. There is no adjustment for facility nonresponse.

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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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For users who wish to calculate client counts and admissions, instructions are available on the N-SSATS Series page and at How to calculate N-SSATS client counts and admissions using SDA.