Mental Health

Mental Health reports the prevalence of the mental illness in the past year by age range for US regions and Connecticut.

Data Source

National Survey on Drug Use and Health

• https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2016-2017-nsduh-state-specific-tables (2016-2017 HTML)
• https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2017-2018-nsduh-state-prevalence-estimates (2017-2018 Excel)

Update dataset

Up to 2016-2017

1. Data needed for processing is an HTML that should be retrieved from an iframe URL, like that: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/cbhsq-reports/NSDUHsaeSpecificStates2017B/NSDUHsaeSpecificStates2017.htm
2. Rename the HTML as NSDUH_YYYY-YYYY.html and save into raw/ folder
3. Run the R script for processing

2017-2018

1. Data is processed by Jupyter notebook, because it is published in .xls
2. Put the .xls spreadsheet in raw/ and update Jupyter notebook accordingly