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**Monitoring the Future is** an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes,and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students aresurveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991). In addition,annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating classfor a number of years after their initial participation.

The Monitoring the Future Study has been funded under a series of investigator-initiatedcompeting research grants from the **National Institute on Drug Abuse**,a part of the **National Institutes of Health**. MTFis conducted at the **Survey Research Center**in the **Institute for Social Research** at the**University of Michigan**.

For additional information regarding the Monitoring the Future study, please e-mailus at **MTFinfo@isr.umich.edu**.

**Recent Publications**

**New 2007 Press Release**"Overall, illicit drug use by American teens continues gradual decline in 2007."Text and associated tables and figures are available.

**New 2007 Press Release**"Teen smoking resumes decline."Text and associated tables and figures are available.

**National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2006, Volumes I & II**are now available. Volume I provides data and trends on 8th, 10th, and 12th graders, and Volume IIaddresses data on college students and adults ages 19-45.

**Overview of Key Findings, 2006**(PDF, 489K) is now available.  This volume presents an overview of the key findingsfrom the 2006 survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students.

**The Education-Drug Use Connection**is now available. This book focuses on the fact that adolescents who do well in school are lesslikely to smoke, drink, or do drugs. It addresses the question: Which comes first -- drug use orschool failure? See a **description of the book** or the **related press release**.
**Other Significant Publications**
**Monitoring the Future: QuestionnaireResponses From the Nation's High School Seniors**. Monitoring the Future12th-grade descriptive results for nearly 2,000 items are **now available**in annual volumes for 1975 through 2005. Comparison between volumes allows readersto understand the changes in viewpoints, attitudes, and experiences of young peopleover the past 31 years. Questions include drug use and views about drugs, delinquencyand victimization, changing roles for women, confidence in social institutions,concerns about energy and ecology, and social and ethical attitudes.

**The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood:Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs** examines why the new freedomsand responsibilities of young adulthood cause substance use to change. This bookexplores how changes in social and religious experiences and changes in attitudestowards substance use among young adults are related to changes in substance use,family transitions, living arrangements, education, and employment. Based on thenationwide Monitoring the Future surveys of young people followed from high schoolinto adulthood, the research covers the last 25 years, a period when drug use andviews about drugs underwent important changes.

**The 2003 European School SurveyProject on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD)** is the third data collectionin the collaborative effort among independent research teams in almost 40 Europeancountries. Modeled after Monitoring the Future, the survey is charged with collectingcomparable data on alcohol, tobacco, and drug use among 15- and 16-year-olds. Thereport compares these data with Monitoring the Future 10th-grade data, with thelong-term goal of comparing trends among countries.**Excerpts** (PDF, 3401K)of the study's results are available. See also the 2001**press release** (PDF, 36K).Visit the **ESPAD Web site** for information on securing the full report.

Copyright 2007 © The Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI 48109 USA. Updated: 11 December 2007.
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