Monitoring the Future. National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2008. Volume II. College Students and Adults Ages 19-50

摘要

This monograph presents findings from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study on high school graduates who have completed follow-up surveys across young and middle adulthood, beginning after their senior year in high school. Now in its 34th year, MTF is a long-term program of research conducted at the University of Michigans Institute for Social Research under a series of investigator-initiated research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The study is comprised of 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 into adulthood (begun in 1976). As we report in this volume, several segments of the general adult population are covered in the follow-up surveys. One important segment is American college students; a second is comprised of their age peers who are not attending college, sometimes called the forgotten half; and a third is all young adult high school graduates of modal ages 19 to 30, which we refer to as the young adult sample. Finally, high school graduates at the specific modal ages of 35, 40, 45, and 50 are now included each year in the longer term follow-ups. 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 2008 follow-up surveys of the graduating high school classes of 1976 through 2007, as these respondents have progressed beyond high school and into adulthood now through age 50 for the oldest respondents.