Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
  • Body section
    1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Why do we need a national collection?
      • 1.2 Brief history of the national collection
      • 1.3 Roles and responsibilities
    2. Scope of the AODTS-NMDS
      • 2.1 Which agencies?
      • 2.2 Which clients?
      • 2.3 Which activities?
    3. What's new for 2005-06?
      • 3.1 Treatment episodes reported by all jurisdictions
      • 3.2 Changes to existing data elements-summary
    4. The data elements-in brief
      • 4.1 Establishment-level data elements
      • 4.2 Episode (client-level) data elements
      • 4.3 Supporting data element concepts
    5. Collection procedures and data quality
      • 5.1 Collation of the national data set
      • 5.2 Data transfer
      • 5.3 Data quality
    6. AIHW validation
      • 6.1 AIHW validation checks
    7. Privacy and confidentiality of data
      • 7.1 Privacy-an introduction
      • 7.2 Privacy and the AIHW
    8. Data release guidelines for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services NMDS
      • 8.1 Purpose
      • 8.2 Background
      • 8.3 Summary of unpublished data access options
      • 8.4 Requests to AIHW for summarised national data
      • 8.5 Requests to AIHW for access to unit record data in the national database
      • 8.6 AIHW charging policy for ad hoc information services
      • 8.7 Requests to states and territories for summarised or unit record data
      • 8.8 Other alcohol and other drug data
  • End matter
    • References
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: IGCD AODTS-NMDS Working Group contact list
      • Appendix B: Data definition - NHDD extracts
      • Appendix C: Data element changes
      • Appendix D: Notes on Australian Bureau of Statistics classifications
      • Appendix E: Extracts and information about the Privacy Act 1998