2016-2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides substance use and mental illness estimates of the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population ages 12 years or older for 406 substate regions. This data contains U.S. substate estimates for 30 binary measures of substance use and mental illness based on combined 2016 to 2018 NSDUHs for individuals aged 12 or older (or adults 18 or older for the five mental health outcomes, and individuals aged 12 to 20 for underage alcohol use and underage binge alcohol use). These estimates are based on a small area estimation (SAE) methodology in which substate-level NSDUH data are combined with county and census block group and tract-level data from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
This data also contains four demographic variables aggregated to the substate-level areas from 2015-2019 ACS five-year estimate data for census tracts.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 2018. 2016-2018 NSDUH Substate Region Shapefile. Accessed 25 November 2023. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2016-2018-nsduh-substate-region-shapefile.
Identifiers
- OBJECTID: Unique feature identifier
- ST: State abbreviation
- Name (SR_NAME): The substate region's name based on the 2016-2018 substate region definitions
- geometry: Area geometry (WKT)
Demographic Variables
- Total Population
- Median Age
- Median Household Income
- Percent Bachelors Degree
NSDUH Variables
All NSDUH variables are estimated percentages of the specified population.
- Alcohol Disorder (abodalc): alcohol use disorder in the past year (12 or older)
- Alcohol Use (alcmon): alcohol use in the past month (12 or older)
- Mental Illness (amiyr): any mental illness (AMI) in the past year (18 or older)
- Binge Alcohol (bngdrk): binge alcohol use in the past month (12 or older)
- Cigarette Use (cigmon): cigarette use in the past month (12 or older)
- Cocaine Use (cocyr): cocaine use in the past year (12 or older)
- Binge Risk Perception (grskbng): perceptions of great risk from having five or more drinks of an alcoholic beverage once or twice a week (12 or older)
- Cigarette Risk Perception (grskcig): perceptions of great risk from smoking one or more packs of cigarettes per day (12 or older)
- Cocaine Risk Perception (grskcoc): perceptions of great risk from using cocaine once a month (12 or older)
- Heroin Risk Perception (grskher): perceptions of great risk from trying heroin once or twice (12 or older)
- Marijuana Risk Perception (grskmrj): perceptions of great risk from smoking marijuana once a month (12 or older)
- Heroin Use (heryr): heroin use in the past year (12 or older)
- Illicit Drug Use (illmon): illicit drug use in the past month (12 or older)
- Illicit Non Marijuana Use (iemmon): illicit drug use other than marijuana in the past month (12 or older)
- First Marijuana Use (inciden): average annual rate of first use of marijuana (12 or older)
- Major Depressive Episode (mde): had at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year (18 or older)
- Methamphetamine Use (metamyr): methamphetamine use in the past year (12 or older)
- Marijuana Past Month (mrjmon): marijuana use in the past month (12 or older)
- Marijuana Past Year (mrjyr): marijuana use in the past year (12 or older)
- Pain Reliever Misuse (pnrnmyr): pain reliever misuse in the past year (12 or older)
- Serious Mental Illness (smiyr): serious mental illness (SMI) in the past year (18 or older)
- Suicide Thoughts (suithyr): serious thoughts of suicide in the past year (18 or older)
- Tobacco Use (tobmon): tobacco product use in the past month (12 or older)
- Need Alcohol Treatment (txnospa): needing but not receiving treatment at a specialty facility for alcohol use in the past year (12 or older)
- Need Drug Treatment (txnospi): needing but not receiving treatment at a specialty facility for illicit drug use in the past year (12 or older)
- Need Substance Treatment (txnpila): needing but not receiving treatment at a specialty facility for substance use in the past year (12 or older)
- Mental Health Services (txrec3): received mental health services in the past year (18 or older)
- Substance Use Disorder (udpyila): substance use disorder in the past year (12 or older)
- Illicit Drug Discorder (udpyill): illicit drug use disorder in the past year (12 or older)
- Pain Reliever Use Disorder (udpypnr): pain reliever use disorder in the past year (12 or older)
- Underage Drinking (ualcmon): underage past month use of alcohol (12 to 20)
- Underage Binge Drinking (ubngdrk): underage past month binge alcohol use (12 to 20)