Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth, 1979

This is the fifth annual survey in this series that
explores changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle
orientations of contemporary American youth. The students are randomly
assigned one of five questionnaires, each with a different subset of
topical questions but all containing a set of "core" questions on
demographics and drug use. There are about 1,300 variables across the
questionnaires. 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 Institute for Social Research
volumes MONITORING THE FUTURE: QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM THE NATION'S
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS.

本系列年度调查已开展至第五期，旨在探究当代美国青年的核心价值观、行为模式及生活取向的变迁态势。本次调查的高中毕业生被随机分配至五套问卷中的一套，每套问卷包含不同的专题问题子集，但均设有一套关于人口统计学特征与药物使用的"核心"问题。各套问卷总计涵盖约1300个变量。本研究的研究设计与实施流程、抽样方法、内容范畴、问卷设计细节，以及按受访者性别、种族、地区、升学计划与药物使用情况划分的百分比分布，均收录于社会研究所（Institute for Social Research）年度出版物《监测未来：全美高中毕业生问卷反馈》（MONITORING THE FUTURE: QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM THE NATION'S HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS）中。