Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 2021

<p>These surveys of 8th- and 10th-grade students are part of a series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students in each grade are randomly assigned to complete one of four questionnaires, each with a different subs...

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Main Author: Miech, Richard A. (Author)
Contributors: Bachman, Jerald G. (Contributor) ; Johnston, Lloyd D. (Contributor) ; O'Malley, Patrick M. (Contributor) ; Patrick, Megan E. (Contributor) ; Schulenberg, John E. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Research Data
Language:English
Published: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] 2022
In:Year: 2022
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Summary:<p>These surveys of 8th- and 10th-grade students are part of a series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students in each grade are randomly assigned to complete one of four questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions but containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are more than 450 variables across the questionnaires. Drugs covered by this survey include amphetamines (stimulants), barbiturates (tranquilizers), other prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, tobacco, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, steroids, marijuana, hashish, LSD, hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, methamphetamine, and injectable drugs such as heroin.</p> <p>Highlights for 2021: <ul> <li>Data collection resumed in 2021, with a change to all web-based surveys.</li> <li>Students completed the surveys on their personal or school-provided device.</li> <li>Non-survey variables have been changed or added to facilitate analyses. For details, please see the codebook section "MTF Variable Information - Non-survey variables included in the data files - Survey mode and design variables for 2021".</li> <li>Information about "screen break" issues, where series of questions were originally presented differently in the web-based survey as compared to the 2019/2020 tablet surveys. Please see the codebook and Appendix D for details.</li></ul></p>
DOI:10.3886/ICPSR38502.v1