Adolescent Behavior and Family Relationships

摘要

This poster uses data from the Adolescent Self-Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) fielded during the 1998 and 2001 waves of the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD). The SAQ asks adolescents aged 12 to 17 to report on many aspects of their lives, including, but not limited to, their relationships with parents, family responsibilities, school attitudes and behaviors, and risk behaviors such as drinking, smoking, illegal drug use, and sex and pregnancy. The 1998 wave of the SAQ interviewed 3,259 (unweighted cases) adolescents (58% response rate), and the 2001 wave interviewed 5,586 (unweighted cases) adolescents (79% response rate). The SPD is a 10-year longitudinal panel survey, representative of the noninstitutionalized civilian population of the United States in 1992 and 1993, the year the survey began. The SPD is a Congressionally mandated survey, designed to measure long-term economic conditions, with particular attention to the effects of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (Welfare Reform) on economic, individual, and child well-being. In order to learn whether and how adolescents age 12 to 17 responded to changes in their family lives because of Welfare Reform, in 1998 and 2001 the Census Bureau asked them to complete a self-administered questionnaire about their behaviors and family relationships. The summarized findings from these questionnaires yield insight into how adolescents today live their lives.