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Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth, 1976-1992: Concatenated Core File

Principal Investigator(s): Bachman, Jerald G.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.

Summary: This data collection contains the "core" variables for the first 17 years of this annual survey that explores changes in the important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Personal and family characteristics, political and religious beliefs, school performance and educational goals, and type and degree of drug usage are some of the topics explored in the core variables. Each year, a large, nationally representative sample of high school seniors ... (view details)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06227.v2

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