National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2000 (ICPSR 3436)
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03436.v6
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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.
Data are collected on topics including facility operation, services offered (assessment, substance abuse therapy and counseling, testing, transitional, and ancillary), primary focus (substance abuse, mental health, both, general health, other), hotline operation, Opioid Treatment Programs and medication dispensed, 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.
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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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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.
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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 facilities that are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved by the state substance abuse agency to provide substance abuse treatment. The second group of facilities 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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N-SSATS questionnaires were mailed to a total of 17,341 facilities believed to offer substance abuse treatment services. Of these facilities, 15.7 percent were found to be ineligible for the survey because they had closed, were not providing substance abuse treatment on October 1, 2000, or treated incarcerated clients only. Of the remaining 14,622 facilities, 94 percent completed the survey. Seventy-six percent of respondents completed the mail survey, 23 percent completed the survey via telephone, and 1 percent completed the survey using an experimental Web-based questionnaire. Either no response of any kind or a refusal was received from 6 percent of facilities presumed to be eligible for the survey.
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2002-10-02
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- United States Department 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), 2000. ICPSR03436-v6. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-11-23. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03436.v6
2015-11-23 Covers for the PDF documentation were revised.
2014-07-17 Changed the Stata system data file from version 13 to version 12 for compatibility on a wider range of systems.
2014-04-25 This study update was done in order to remove the geographic variables of County and MSA.
2013-11-27 Variable level xml file updated.
2012-06-06 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 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.
2004-06-23 The following variables were added: COUNTY, MSA, REGION, DIVISION, HOTYN, CTYPE4, CTYPE7, CTYPE1, CLIENTFL, T_CLI9, T_CLIJUV, T_CLIMET. The variable JAILONLY was removed, and the documentation has been revised to reflect these changes. Corresponding Stata data defintion statements have also been added.
2004-04-15 The variable CTYFIPS was added.
2002-10-02 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.
- 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.
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This study is maintained and distributed by the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP). NAHDAP is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).