Welcome to the MTF Website

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Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of Americans from adolescence through adulthood.Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th and 12th grade students aresurveyed (12th graders since 1975, and 8th and 10th graders since 1991). In addition,annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating classfor a number of years after their initial participation. The Monitoring the Future Studyhas been funded under a series of investigator-initiated competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of theNational Institutes of Health. MTF is conducted at theSurvey Research Center in theInstitute for Social Research at theUniversity of Michigan.For additional information regarding the Monitoring the Future study, please e-mailus at mtfinformation@umich.edu.Monitoring the Future: QuestionnaireResponses From the Nation's High School Seniors. Monitoring the Future12th-grade descriptive results for nearly 2,000 items are now availablein annual volumes for 1975 through 2012. Comparison between volumes allows readersto understand the changes in viewpoints, attitudes, and experiences of young peopleover the past 36 years. Questions include drug use and views about drugs, delinquencyand victimization, changing roles for women, confidence in social institutions,concerns about energy and ecology, and social and ethical attitudes.The Education-Drug Use Connectionis now available. This book focuses on the fact that adolescents who do well in school are lesslikely to smoke, drink, or do drugs. It addresses the question: Which comes first -- drug use orschool failure? See a description of the book orthe related press release. The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) completed its fifth data collection in 2011 in a collaborative effort in nearly 40 European countries. Modeled largely after Monitoring the Future, this series of surveys reports national survey results on 15- and 16-year olds and MTF data from 10th-graders are included. The goal is to compare and track substance use among countries.

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