Monitoring the Future. National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975-2007. Volume Two. College Students and Adults Ages 19-45

摘要

Monitoring the Future, which is now in its 33rd year, 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 adults (begun in 1976). As we report in this volume, several segments of the adult population are covered in the follow-up surveys of high school graduates. One important segment is American college students; a second is 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, and 45 are included each year in 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 2007 follow-up surveys of the graduating high school classes of 1976 through 2006 as these respondents have progressed into adulthoodnow through age 45 for the oldest respondents, and soon to be through age 50. To permit this volume to stand alone, we have repeated some material from Volume I. Specifically, chapter 2 in the present volume is the same as chapter 2 in Volume I; it provides an integrated overview of the key findings presented in both volumes. Chapter 3, Study Design and Procedures, is also the same as chapter 3, Volume I. The reader already familiar with Volume I may wish to skip over these chapters here. Otherwise, the content of the two volumes does not overlap.