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Monitoring the Future

Alternate Titles(s): MTF
UID: 10029
Author(s): Lloyd G. Johnston, Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, John E. Schulenberg

Description
The Monitoring the Future annual surveys explore trends and changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyles of contemporary American youth. Each year, nationally representative samples of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students in the United States are asked to respond to drug use and demographic questions, as well as a subset of topical questions on a variety of subjects such as attitudes toward religion, parental influences, changing roles of women, educational aspirations, self-esteem, exposure to sex and drug education, and violence and crime in and out of school. Approximately 50,000 students participate each year. Annual follow-up questionnaires are also mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation.
Timeframe
1975 - Present
Geographic Coverage
United States
Local Expert
Joseph Palamar
Subject of Study
Homo sapiens
Subject Domain
Mental Health
Population Characteristics
Risk Factors
Population Age
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Keywords
Adolescents
Health Behavior
High School
Population Characteristics
Risk Behavior
Risk Factors
Schools
Social Determinants of Health
Students
Substance Abuse

Access

Restrictions
Free to All
Application Required
Instructions
MTF datasets are available for download on the ICPSR repository along with relevant documentation (codebook and user guide). Restricted-use data files include geographic information and require interested researchers to complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement and apply for access to the ICPSR Virtual Data Enclave.
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Public-use datasets
Accession #: 00035

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Restricted-use datasets
Accession #: 746

Associated Publications
Palamar JJ, Le A. Discordant report of vaping of cannabis among high school seniors in the United States. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2022 Mar 4;48(2):148-157. doi: 10.1080/00952990.2021.1942030. Epub 2021 Jul 15. PMID: 34266316; PMCID: PMC8760354.
Duncan DT, Palamar JJ, Williams JH. Perceived neighborhood illicit drug selling, peer illicit drug disapproval and illicit drug use among U.S. high school seniors. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2014 Sep 3;9:35.
Data Type
Surveys
Study Type
Observational
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, ASCII, CSV
PubMed Search
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Other Resources
Monitoring the Future