National Survey of Drug Use and Health
Alternate Titles(s): NSDUH
UID: 10037
- Description
- The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States. This annual survey involves interviews with approximately 70,000 randomly selected individuals aged 12 and older. NSDUH is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- Publisher
- Timeframe
- 1971 - Present
- Geographic Coverage
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United States
- Local Expert
Homo sapiens
Subject Domain
Population Age
Keywords
Child (2 years - 12 years)
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Adult (19 years - 64 years)
Senior (65 years - 79 years)
Aged (80 years and over)
Access
- Restrictions
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Free to All
- Instructions
- Datasets, codebooks, and questionnaires from 1979 to the present can be downloaded from the NSDUH website and the ICPSR repository. Data is available in SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, ASCII, and Excel formats. The Public- and Restricted-use Data Analysis Systems (PDAS and RDAS) allow researchers to generate crosstabs (frequency data tables) online with survey data.
Observational
- PubMed Search
- View articles which use this dataset
- Other Resources
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Survey Website
Additional information about NSDUH
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