DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02995.v5
title: Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997: [United States]
title: Version 5

description: The Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS), formerly the National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Unit Survey or NDATUS, was designed to measure the scope and use of drug abuse treatment services in the United States. The survey collects information from each privately- and publicly-funded facility in the country that provides substance abuse treatment as well as from state-identified facilities that provide other substance abuse services. Data are collected on a number of topics including facility operation, services provided (assessment, therapy, testing, health, continuing care, programs for special groups, transitional services, community outreach, ancillary), type of treatment, facility capacity, numbers of clients, and various client characteristics. The main objective of the UFDS is to produce data that can be used to assess the nature and extent of substance abuse treatment services, to assist in the forecast of treatment resource requirements, to analyze treatment service trends, to conduct national, regional, and state-level comparative analyses of treatment services and utilization, and to generate the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its on-line equivalent, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator. Additionally, the UFDS provides information that can be used to design sampling frames for other surveys of substance abuse treatment facilities.
description: Response Rates: The response rate of the effective sample was 86
 percent (14,291). This data collection is comprised of only the subset
 of these facilities that provide treatment services, either alone or in
 conjunction with other substance abuse services. This includes 10,860
 treatment facilities, or 76 percent of those facilities that responded
 to the survey. A total of 82 percent of the 10,860 facilities completed
 the mail questionnaire and 18 percent completed the survey in a
telephone interview directed at mail nonrespondents.
description: The sample included all facilities in the National Master
 Facility Inventory (NMFI). The NMFI is a comprehensive listing of all
 known substance abuse treatment facilities and state-identified
 prevention and education facilities. Questionnaires were distributed to
 19,956 facilities in the following general categories: treatment
 facilities administratively tracked by states and reporting to the
 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) (9,200), treatment facilities
 administratively tracked by states but not reporting to TEDS (5,300),
 treatment facilities not administratively tracked by states (2,500),
 non-treatment facilities administratively tracked by states (2,400). Of
 these facilities, 2,057 (10 percent) were determined to have been closed
 on the survey reference date. The data for an additional 1,204
 facilities (6 percent) were included with data reported by an
 administratively-linked facility. This yielded an effective sample size
of 16,695.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997: [United States]
description: Data were collected by Mathematica Policy Research,
Inc., Princeton, NJ, and prepared for release by Synectics for
Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA, 2000.Selected variables have
been recoded from character data to numeric data. The recoded variables
are flags whose values indicate whether imputation was performed to
replace missing data for an associated variable. In the original data
file, these flags contained character data. "I" was defined as "Value
Imputed" and "R", "C", "S", and "E" were defined as "Value Not Imputed".
The four codes defined as "Value Not Imputed" have been collapsed and
recoded to "0" and the value label changed to "NOT IMPUTED". "I" was
recoded to "1" and the value label changed to "IMPUTED". The codebook
provided with the dataset contains references to the original values and
value labels, not the recoded numeric values.To protect the privacy
of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individual
facilities, including financial data originally collected and included
in the dataset, have been removed from the public use file. These
modifications should not affect most analytic uses of the public use
file.The codebook describes the public use files as a SAS transport
file and an ASCII file with a record length of 1,693. These are the
original files and are not included in this release.