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Description & Citation--Study No. 2268

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2268
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02268
 
Title:Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 1996
 
Principal Investigator(s):Jerald G. Bachman
 
  Lloyd D. Johnston
 
  Patrick M. O'Malley
 
Series:Monitoring the Future (MTF) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute on Drug Abuse
 
Grant Number:5R01DA01411-23
 
Bibliographic Citation:Bachman, Jerald G., Lloyd D. Johnston, and Patrick M. O'Malley. MONITORING THE FUTURE: A CONTINUING STUDY OF AMERICAN YOUTH (12TH-GRADE SURVEY), 1996 [Computer file]. Conducted by University of Michigan, Survey Research Center. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02268
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This is the 22nd annual survey in this series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Students are randomly assigned to complete one of six questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical questions but all containing a set of "core" questions on demographics and drug use. There are about 1,400 variables across the questionnaires. Drugs covered by this survey include tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, hashish, LSD, hallucinogens, amphetamines (stimulants), Ritalin (methylphenidate), quaaludes, barbiturates (tranquilizers), cocaine, crack, and heroin. Other items include attitudes toward religion, parental influences, changing roles for women, educational aspirations, self-esteem, exposure to sex and drug education, and violence and crime -- both in and out of school.
 
Subject Term(s):attitudes, demographic characteristics, drug use, family life, high school students, life plans, lifestyles, social behavior, social change, values, youths
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1996
 
Date(s) of Collection:1996
 
Universe:High school seniors in the contiguous United States.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) To protect the anonymity of respondents, all variables that could be used to identify individuals have been collapsed or recoded on the public use files. These modifications should not affect analytic uses of the public use files. (2) The codebooks are provided as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and may be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR and SAMHDA Web sites.
 

Methodology

Sample:Multistage area probability sample design involving three selection stages: (1) geographic areas or primary sampling units (PSUs), (2) schools (or linked groups of schools) within PSUs, and (3) students within sampled schools. Of the 80 PSUs, 8 were selected with certainty and 72 were selected with probability proportionate to size based on the size of the senior class. In schools with more than 400 seniors, a random sample of seniors or classes was drawn. In schools with less than 400 seniors, all seniors were asked to participate. Each school was asked to participate for two years so that each year one-half of the sample is replaced. Schools refusing participation were replaced with similar schools in terms of geographic location, size, and type of school (e.g., public, private/Catholic, private/non-Catholic). The total sample was divided into six subsamples consisting of an average of 2,700 respondents, and each subsample was administered a different form of the questionnaire, although all respondents answered the "core" drug and demographic questions. The participation rate among schools has been between 66 and 80 percent since the inception of the study. The overall student response rate for 1996 was 83 percent.
 
Data Source:self-administered questionnaires
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1998-10-05
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
  1999-11-10 - The "File Structure" section of each PDF codebook introduction has been corrected to document accurately the number of variables, logical record length, and unweighted N for all seven parts of the data collection.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Core Data
  • DS2: Form 1 Data
  • DS3: Form 2 Data
  • DS4: Form 3 Data
  • DS5: Form 4 Data
  • DS6: Form 5 Data
  • DS7: Form 6 Data
 

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