Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (8th- and 10th-Grade Surveys), 2021

These
surveys of 8th- and 10th-grade students are part of a series that explores
changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of
contemporary American youth. Students in each grade are randomly assigned to
complete one of four questionnaires, each with a different subset of topical
questions but containing a set of "core" questions on demographics
and drug use. There are more than 450 variables across the questionnaires.
Drugs covered by this survey include amphetamines (stimulants), barbiturates
(tranquilizers), other prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications,
tobacco, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, inhalants, steroids, marijuana, hashish,
LSD, hallucinogens, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, methamphetamine, and injectable
drugs such as heroin.
Highlights for 2021:

Data collection resumed in 2021, with a change to all web-based surveys.
Students completed the surveys on their personal or school-provided device.
Non-survey variables have been
changed or added to facilitate analyses. For details, please see the codebook
section "MTF Variable Information - Non-survey variables included in the
data files - Survey mode and design variables for 2021".
Information about "screen
break" issues, where series of questions were originally presented differently
in the web-based survey as compared to the 2019/2020 tablet surveys. Please see
the codebook and Appendix D for details.