[SAMHDA] Updated TEDS files, new concatenated TEDS file, user registration system

[SAMHDA-Announcements]

The following are updates from SAMHDA:

New or updated files

The archival and online data analysis system (DAS) versions of the 
1992-2001 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) files have been updated with 
the latest data extracts available. The new files include the original 
codes for primary, secondary, and tertiary substance of abuse, rather than 
collapsed codes for these variables, as well as set-up files for Stata in 
addition to our traditional SAS and SPSS set-ups.

A new concatenated file for the 1992-2002 TEDS has also been added to the 
DAS and Quick Tables. Due to the size of the concatenated file (nearly 19 
million records), an archival version is not available. However, subsets of 
the file may be downloaded using the DAS.

Access all TEDS files and links from 
http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA-SERIES/00056.xml.

Announcements

SAMHDA will launch a user registration system, "MyData", on August 23. 
Users will continue to have the option to download data anonymously using a 
guest login. Users who opt to register will be able to select preferences 
(e.g., the statistical package / type of data definition statements 
preferred), which will make downloading files smoother. The SAMHDA Web site 
will be unavailable briefly at 5:00 p.m. on the 23rd while the new system 
is activated. For more information, see 
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/news.html.

Ongoing

We appreciate the appropriate citation for analyses using data obtained 
from SAMHDA. Each SAMHDA study description and codebook includes a 
suggested bibliographic citation for the data. For more information on 
appropriately citing electronic data files, see 
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/citation.html.

We welcome the submission of citations for publications based on our data 
holdings for our online citations database. Use the Web form on the 
following page for submitting citations: 
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/ref-form.html. You may submit papers, 
book chapters, etc. that are not yet published and we will track and add 
them to the database once they are published. To access the citations 
database, select the "related literature" link for a given study or series.

Call our toll-free helpline or email us with any questions or problems 
regarding using our data holdings or online data analysis system.


Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
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Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)





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