CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) National Datasets, 1991-2021

"The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a set of surveys that track behaviors that can lead to poor health in students grades 9 through 12. The surveys are administered every other year. Some of the health-related behaviors and experiences monitored are:<br><br>* Student demographics: sex, sexual identity, race and ethnicity, and grade<br>* Youth health behaviors and conditions: sexual, injury and violence, bullying, diet and physical activity, obesity, and mental health, including suicide<br>* Substance use behaviors: electronic vapor product and tobacco product use, alcohol use, and other drug use<br>* Student experiences: parental monitoring, school connectedness, unstable housing, and exposure to community violence"<br><br>(Taken from https://web.archive.org/web/20231011104407/https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/overview.htm)<br><br><br>This deposit consists of ASCII datasets, SAS input syntax, and .csv datasets for the National YRBS/YRBSS datasets for 1991-2021. The data were downloaded in October of 2023 for a student who wished to use the data for a thesis.<br><br>