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Description & Citation--Study No. 2477

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2477
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02477
 
Title:Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 1997
 
Alternate Title:MTF 1997 (12th Grade)
 
Principal Investigator(s):Lloyd D. Johnston, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
 
  Jerald G. Bachman, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
 
  Patrick M. O'Malley, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research. Survey Research Center
 
Series:Monitoring the Future (MTF) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institute on Drug Abuse.
 
Grant Number:3R01DA01411
 
Bibliographic Citation:Johnston, Lloyd D., Jerald G. Bachman, and Patrick M. O'Malley. MONITORING THE FUTURE: A CONTINUING STUDY OF AMERICAN YOUTH (12TH-GRADE SURVEY), 1997 [Computer file]. Conducted by University of Michigan, Survey Research Center. ICPSR02477-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2006-05-15. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02477
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This is the 23nd 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 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:1997
 
Date(s) of Collection:1997, Spring
 
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) Variables omitted from the Western region questionnaires are noted in each codebook. (3) Users are advised that there are seven parts to this collection: one containing the "key" or core questions for all six questionnaires and a separate part for each of the six different questionnaire forms. The core file consists of all respondents for all six questionnaires, however, only those variables that appear on all six questionnaires and demographic variables are found in this file. The core file consists primarily of drug use data and demographic variables. (4) The collection is documented by machine-readable codebooks with a separate codebook for each part. Users are further advised to consult the appropriate MONITORING THE FUTURE: QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM THE NATION'S HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS annual volume, available from the Monitoring the Future staff, for more information about the collection.
 

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:self-enumerated questionnaire
 

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:1998-10-08
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-05-15.
 
  2006-05-15 - Minor edits were made to the metadata and documentation.
 
  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.
 
  1999-12-29 - The data files for Forms 2 and 4 (Parts 3 and 5) were reprocessed to eliminate duplicate records. The corresponding codebook frequencies were also revised.
 
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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