Data Source

Registry

Type of Study

Longitudinal survey

Data gathering method

Registries

Conditions of access

Formal agreements (e.g. fees, research contracts, institutional agreements, etc.)

Free access

Time elapsed between application and reception of data

Up to one year

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

Aggregated tables

Formats available

Excel

Language issues

Data is available in English and Croatian.

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

Registry

Geographical coverage and breakdowns

NUTS-1, NUTS-3

Age range

Individual age for each treated psychoactive drug abusers

Statistical representativeness

Psychoactive drug abusers and addicts

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics

The data cover only treated psychoactive drug abusers. The data source allows for a detailed study.

Further Reading

• Izvješće o osobama liječenim zbog zlouporabe psihoaktivnih droga u Hrvatskoj u 2011

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.

Entry errors if applicable

Incomplete data

Breaks

NA

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection

NA

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