Monitoring the Future: Base Year & Follow-Up Form 2 Panel Data, Ages 18-30, United States, 1976-2021 [Restricted-Use]

The MTF study consists of six different survey forms (five forms from 1976-1988).
This study contains the data for Form 2 longitudinal panel participants. The
MTF Form 2 restricted panel dataset includes data for the base year (BY) 12th
grade surveys (modal age 18) and their young adult follow-up FU surveys (modal
ages 19-30).
In
addition to demographic-related questions and questions about lifetime, annual,
and 30-day substance use that are included on all survey forms, Form 2 also
includes questions covering:

Availability of drugs
Confidence/trust in government
Dating, marriage, and family
Delinquency and victimization
Expected future substance use
Exposure to substance use
Healthy behaviors, illness, COVID-19
Leisure time activities, high school and post-high school
Methods of marijuana use
Military: plans for service, draft opinion
Own attitudes and perceptions about substance use
Perceived friends' substance use
Perceived risk of substance use
Psychosocial domains: boredom, loneliness, self-esteem, depressive affect, social support, self-efficacy, risk taking
Satisfaction with life domains
Sources of help and treatment for substance use
Sources of marijuana
Substance use initiation
Vaping, including nicotine, marijuana, flavoring, sources
Voting, political activism

NOTE: In 2020, school-based data collection was halted due to COVID-19. BY
sample sizes were affected, and data for some questions on forms 2 and 3 were
suppressed. The list of variables affected is found in the 2020 12th grade
Codebook available through NAHDAP.
Please see the study documentation available on the MTF Panel series page for
question-specific details , including content areas included in all survey forms.
NOTE: Researchers are encouraged to begin their work with the "core" data file,
NAHDAP study 39223. Please see the User's Guide, IV. Working with the MTF
Restricted Panel Data, for details.
More information about the MTF project can be accessed through the Monitoring
the Future website. Annual reports are published by the MTF research team,
describing the data collection and trends over time.