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released: 12 Mar 2007

These guidelines have been prepared as a reference for those involved in collecting and supplying the data for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS). It should be particularly useful to staff in Australian Government, state and territory departments, and alcohol and other drug treatment agency staff directly involved in the collection and reporting of the data set.

Cat. no. HSE 46; 165pp.; INTERNET ONLY

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Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS specifications 2007-08: data dictionary, collection guidelines and validation processes

Full publication (605K PDF)

  • Preliminary material (180K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    • Introduction (122K PDF)
      • 1.1 Why do we need a national collection?
      • 1.2 Brief history of the national collection
      • 1.3 Roles and responsibilities
    • Scope of the AODTS-NMDS (113K PDF)
      • 2.1 Which agencies?
      • 2.2 Which clients?
      • 2.3 Which activities?
    • What's new for 2007-08? (142K PDF)
      • 3.1 Treatment episodes reported by all jurisdictions
      • 3.2 Changes to existing data elements-summary
    • The data elements-in brief (169K PDF)
      • 4.1 Establishment-level data elements
      • 4.2 Episode (client-level) data elements
      • 4.3 Supporting items
    • Collection procedures, data quality and validation checks (238K PDF)
    • 5.1 Collation of the national data set
    • 5.2 Data transfer
    • 5.3 Data quality
    • 5.4 AIHW validation checks
    • AODTS-NMDS privacy and data principles (153K PDF)
      • 6.1 Introduction
      • 6.2 Relevant background material
      • 6.3 Privacy and data principles for the AODTS-NMDS
    • Data release guidelines for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services NMDS (198K PDF)
      • 7.1 Purpose
      • 7.2 Background
      • 7.3 Summary of unpublished data access options
      • 7.4 Requests to AIHW for summarised national data
      • 7.5 Requests to AIHW for access to unit record data in the national database
      • 7.6 AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
      • 7.7 Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
      • 7.8 Other alcohol and other drug data
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group contact list (113K PDF)
      • Appendix B: Data definition-NHDD extracts (270K PDF)
      • Appendix C: Data element changes (148K PDF)
      • Appendix D: Mapping of Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL) (90K PDF)
      • Appendix E: Notes on Australian Bureau of Statistics classifications (116K PDF)
      • Appendix F: The Information Privacy Principles in plain English (134K PDF)
      • Appendix G: An overview of the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (114K PDF)
      • Appendix H: Privacy and the AIHW (162K PDF)
    • References (87K PDF)
    • List of tables (96K PDF)
    • List of figures

Recommended citation

AIHW 2007. Alcohol and other drug treatment services NMDS specifications 2007-08: data dictionary, collection guidelines and validation processes. Cat. no. HSE 46. Canberra: AIHW.