IPUMS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System: Version 1.0

IPUMS YRBSS contains harmonized Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) data from 1991-2013. The YRBSS is a school-based, cross-sectional national survey of youth in grades 9-12. The YRBSS focuses on health risk behaviors that are often established during childhood and early adolescence, including behaviors associated with tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, unintentional injuries, sexual behaviors related to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, unhealthy diet, and inadequate physical activity. On average, the survey covers over 14,000 persons each year it is conducted. The IPUMS harmonized YRBSS combines all the public use data into a single file spanning 1991-2013. Variables are renamed and coded consistently across time to facilitate pooling and trend analysis. The harmonized data contain all of the variables and category detail of the original files; no information is lost. The codebook provides variable-level documentation noting comparability issues across survey years.