CHAPTER 3

CHARACTERISTICS OF ADMISSIONS: 1996

This chapter highlights important findings in the 1996 data (see Tables 3.1 - 3.12). These tables include all items in the TEDS Minimum and Supplemental Data Set for 1996,¹ presented as percentage distributions according to primary substance. The stacked bar charts in this chapter emphasize the major users of each substance in terms of sex, age, and race/ethnicity; for detailed information on the less frequent users, see the associated tables.

¹See Chapter 4, Tables 4.3 and 4.4, for State-by-State and total item response rates. See Appendix A for details of the categories for the individual items in the data set.

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