ICPSR Metadata record for Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth, 1976 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth, 1976 MTF 1976 (12th Grade) Bachman, Jerald G. Johnston, Lloyd D. O'Malley, Patrick M. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2007-05-25 7927 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07927.v4
This is the second annual survey in this series that explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. The students are randomly assigned one of five 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 1,300 variables across the questionnaires. Full details on the research design and procedures, sampling methodology, content areas, and questionnaire design, as well as percentage distributions by respondent's sex, race, region, college plans, and drug use, appear in the annual Institute for Social Research volumes MONITORING THE FUTURE: QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM THE NATION'S HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS.
 UniverseScheme07927 Monitoring the Future (MTF) Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00035. Organization07927_1 ICPSR.XVII.C.1 RCMD.IX NAHDAP.I NACJD.XI alcohol attitudes demographic characteristics drug use family life high school students life plans lifestyles religious attitudes social behavior social change tobacco use values youths United States 1976 1976 individual survey data High school seniors in the contiguous United States. 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 74 PSUs, 12 were selected with certainty and 62 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). 1976 1976

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created online analysis version with question text.
Each of the six parts contains a weight variable, V5. They were originally varied by school but were modified to protect respondent confidentiality. Users should use the weight variable for all analyses, the results of which will differ slightly from published data tables that used original data. The participation rate among schools has been between 66 and 80 percent since the inception of the study. The overall student response rate for 1976 was 77 percent. ICPSR
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http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ netmail@icpsr.umich.edu United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse 2007-05-25 ICPSR 2007-05-25 A change was made in how missing values were assigned to one variable (v151). 2006-03-30 ICPSR 2006-03-30 File CB7927.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. 2005-11-04 ICPSR 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. 2004-07-30 ICPSR 2004-07-30 Value labels were added to the data definition statements. For Part 1 (Form 1 Questionnaire), the following 22 variables were recoded to correct coding errors: V1227, V1228, V1230, V1232 to V1239, and V1542 to V1552. For Part 3 (Form 3 Questionnaire), the following 14 variables were removed due to undefined codes: V3319 to V3332. Minor changes were made to the codebook. 2002-03-08 ICPSR 2002-03-08 SAS and SPSS data definition statements are now available for this collection. Value labels are documented in the codebook. OSIRIS data dictionaries, card-image data files, and data map files are no longer distributed with this collection. 1998-01-15 ICPSR 1998-01-15 The codebook is now available as a PDF file. StudyUnit07927
(1) Percentage distributions provided in the codebook were generated using full weights, which are not available on the public use files. Therefore, these results cannot be replicated using the public use files. The differences between results produced using the full weights and those produced using the sampling weights available on the public use files are estimated to be below 1 percent. (2) To protect the confidentiality 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 file.