Monitoring the Future: Base Year & Follow-Up Form 5 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 5 longitudinal panel participants. The MTF Form 5 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 5 also includes questions covering:

Non-prescription substance use, including Ritalin, Adderall, Oxycontin, Vicodin, fentanyl
Energy drinks/shots
Flavored alcohol, alcohol+caffeine
Flavored small and large cigars
Hookah
dissolvable tobacco, snus, smokeless tobacco
Synthetic marijuana use
Incidence of first use
Perceived risk of substance use
Own and others' attitudes and perceptions about substance use
Exposure to substance use
Substance use problems
Reasons for substance use, abstention or stopping use
Perceived availability of substances
Expected future substance use
Sources of help and treatment for substance use
Job-related substance use testing
Methods of substance use
Satisfaction with life domains
Interpersonal relationships
Parenthood: status, attitudes, expectations
Dating, marriage, and family: status, values, attitudes, expectations, sex roles
Military: plans for service, attitudes toward the military as an institution and occupation
Working arrangements and settings
Work ethic/success orientation
Leisure time: extent, activities, and attitudes
Community involvement
Voting and political activism
Political interest and preference
Concern for others, locally and globally
Conservation of resources, ecological concerns, mass transit
Attitudes towards discrimination
Expectations concerning societal change
Reactions to personal and social change
Personal materialism
Delinquency and victimization
Psychosocial domains: boredom, loneliness, self-esteem, depressive affect,social support, self-efficacy, risk taking
Healthy behaviors, illness, COVID-19
Post high school: status, plans, characteristics
High school sport involvement, concussion
Substance use education in high school

Please see the study documentation available on the MTF Panel series page for question-specific details, including content areas included in all survey forms.
More information about the MTF project can be accessed through the Monitoring the Future website. Annual reports are published by the research team, describing the data collection and trends over time.