Monitoring the future
Subtitle: a continuing study of the lifestyles and values of youth, 1987
By: principal investigators, Lloyd D. Johnston, Jerald G. Bachman, and Patrick M. O'Malley
Series: Monitoring the future series; ICPSR -- 9079; ICPSR (Series) -- 9079
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: High school seniors; Attitudes; Youth; Drug use; Social conditions
Description: This is the thirteenth annual survey in this series that examines values, lifestyles, and behaviors among American youth.
Notes: The Monitoring the Future annual surveys are designed to explore changes in many important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. Two general types of tasks may be distinguished. The first is to provide a systematic and accurate description of the youth population of interest in a given year, and to quantify the direction and rate of change occurring over time. The second task, more analytic than descriptive, involves the explanation of the relationships and trends observed. Each year, a large, nationally representative sample of high school seniors in the U.S. is asked to respond to approximately 100 drug use and demographic questions as well as an average of 200 additional questions on a variety of subjects, including attitudes toward government, social institutions, race relations, changing roles for women, educational aspirations, and occupational aims as well as marital and family plans. There are more than 1,300 variables in all. Each year, the total sample is divided into five subsamples and each subsample is administered a different form of the questionnaire, although all the respondents answer the "core" drug and demographic questions. Each of the questionnaires generates a corresponding data file.

In addition, there is a sixth file that contains only the "core" variables present in all five forms. Each of the subsamples contains approximately 3,500 respondents. 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 ISR volumes Monitoring the Future: Questionnaire Responses from the Nation's High School Seniors. There are six OSIRIS dictionaries, six datasets, and six data maps available per year, corresponding to the six forms noted above. Data are available in OSIRIS and card-image formats. A machine-readable codebook gives the percentage distributions of all variables as well as a year-to-year cross reference table organized by item number, question number, and subject area.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1987. Data collected: 1987.

Self-enumerated forms.

Survey data.

United States.

OSIRIS and Card Image data format, with SPSS Control Cards for each.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Form 1 Questionnaire ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,375 ; variable count: 673 ; LRECL: 689 ; records per case: 9.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Form 2 Questionnaire ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,368 ; variable count: 377 ; LRECL: 390 ; records per case: 5.

Part number: 3 ; part name: Form 3 Questionnaire ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,358 ; variable count: 369 ; LRECL: 382 ; records per case: 5.

Part number: 4 ; part name: Form 4 Questionnaire ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,376 ; variable count: 337 ; LRECL: 351 ; records per case: 5.

Part number: 5 ; part name: Form 5 Questionnaire ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 3,366 ; variable count: 395 ; LRECL: 408 ; records per case: 6.

Part number: 6 ; part name: Form 6 Questionnaire ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 16,843 ; variable count: 117 ; LRECL: 130 ; records per case: 2.

National multistage sample.

Universe: High school seniors in the contiguous United States.