Alternate Title:  N-SSATS, 2000

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies

Summary:

Series: National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) Series

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• This study is maintained and distributed by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA). SAMHDA is supported by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ), formerly the Office of Applied Studies.

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-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-06-06. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03436.v4

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03436.v4

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies

Subject Terms:   alcohol abuse, drug abuse, drug treatment, health care services, HIV, intervention, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment, treatment facilities, treatment programs

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 2000

Date of Collection:  

• 2000-10--2001-04

Universe:   All facilities that were on the Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) as of approximately six weeks before the survey reference date of October 1, 2000.

Data Types:   survey data

Data Collection Notes:

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Mode of Data Collection:   mail questionnaire, telephone interview, web-based survey

Response Rates:   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.

Extent of Processing:  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.

Original ICPSR Release:  2002-10-02

Version History:

• 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.

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