Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2016. Volume II, College Students &amp; Adults Ages 19-55
Author: Schulenberg, John E.
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Secondary School Students,College Students,Grade 8,Grade 10,Grade 12,Young Adults,Drug Abuse,Incidence,Behavior,Age Differences,Beliefs,Social Influences,Dropouts,Attendance,Trend Analysis,Narcotics,Stimulants,Experience,Marijuana,Drinking,Alcohol Abuse,Gender Differences,Smoking,Racial Differences,Ethnicity,Questionnaires,Surveys,Geographic Regions,Population Trends,Parent Background,Educational Attainment,College Bound Students,Peer Influence,Parent Attitudes,Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,Drug Therapy,College Attendance,Risk,National Surveys,Adults,Cocaine,Inhalants,Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

Monitoring the Future (MTF), now in its 42nd year, is a research program conducted at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research under a series of investigator-initiated, competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse--one of the National Institutes of Health. The study comprises several ongoing series of annual surveys of nationally representative samples of 8th- and 10th-grade students (begun in 1991), 12th-grade students (begun in 1975), and high school graduates followed into adulthood (begun in 1976). The current monograph reports the results of the repeated cross-sectional surveys of all high school graduating classes since 1976 as they are followed into their adult years (as discussed in Chapter 4, these cross sections come from longitudinal data). Segments of the general adult population represented in these follow-up surveys include: (1) U.S. college students; (2) their age-peers who are not attending college, sometimes called the &quot;forgotten half&quot;; (3) all young adult high school graduates of modal ages 19 to 30 (or 19-28 for trend estimates), who are referred to as the &quot;young adult&quot; sample; and (4) high school graduates at the specific later modal ages of 35, 40, 45, 50, and 55. In this volume, historical and developmental changes in substance use and related attitudes and beliefs occurring at these age strata receive particular emphasis. The follow-up surveys have been conducted by mail on representative subsamples of the previous participants from each high school senior class. This volume presents data from the 1977 through 2016 follow-up surveys of the graduating high school classes of 1976 through 2015, as these respondents have progressed into adulthood. The oldest MTF respondents, from the class of 1976, were the first to be surveyed through age 55 in 2013-37 years after their graduation. Other monographs in this series include the Overview of Key Findings, 2 which presents early results from the secondary school surveys; Volume I, 3 which provides an in-depth look at the secondary school survey results; and the HIV/AIDS monograph, 4 drawn from the follow-up surveys of 21- to 40-year-olds, which focuses on risk and protective behaviors related to the transmission of HIV/AIDS. To enable the present volume to stand alone, three chapters from Volume I have been repeated. Chapter 2 provide a summary of key findings from five of the populations under study (8th graders, 10th graders, 12th graders, college students, and young adults). Chapter 3 outlines the study's design and procedures. Chapter 10 (which is Chapter 11 in Volume I) provides a summary of recent publications from the MTF study. [For &quot;Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2015. Volume I, Secondary School Students&quot; see ED578604.]