Croatian Registry of Treated Psychoactive Drug Abusers

Summary

The report is only available in Croatian, but it is a stable and harmonized data source.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry

Type of Study
Other: Longitudinal survey

Data gathering method
Registries

Access to data

Conditions of access

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Aggregated tables

Formats available
Excel

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data has been collected every year until 2012.

First year of collection
1999

Stratification if applicable
Stratification by county, age, sex, diagnosis

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
NUTS-1, NUTS-3

Age range
Individual age for each treated psychoactive drug abusers

Statistical representativeness
Special group, please specify

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
The data cover only treated psychoactive drug abusers. The data source allows for a detailed study.

Linkage

Standardisation
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10)

Possibility of linkage among databases
A common variable is patient ID.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
Incomplete data

Breaks
NA

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
NA

Governance

Contact information
Dr. Dragica Katalinic / Department of Epidemiology
Croatian National Institute of Public Health
Rockefellerova 7
10000 Zagreb Croatia Phone: +38514863240
Email: dragica.katalinic(at)hzjz.hr
Url: http://www.hzjz.hr/publikacije/ovisnici2011.pdf

Timeliness, transparency
Data is available within one year of collection.