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CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) National Datasets, 1991-2021

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
CDC_YRBSS_SAS_input_format_statements_edited.zip application/zip 104.2 KB 02/04/2025 11:50:AM
CDC_YRBSS_SAS_input_format_statements_original.zip application/zip 99.7 KB 02/04/2025 11:46:AM
XXH2017_YRBS_Data.dat text/plain 6 MB 02/04/2025 11:51:AM
XXH2019_YRBS_Data.dat text/plain 5.5 MB 10/11/2023 11:43:AM
XXH2021_YRBS_Data.dat text/plain 7 MB 10/11/2023 11:06:AM
YRBSS_README.txt text/plain 3.6 KB 02/04/2025 12:07:PM
YRBS_1991_national.csv text/csv 2 MB 10/16/2023 09:09:AM
YRBS_1993_national.csv text/csv 3.1 MB 02/04/2025 11:12:AM
YRBS_1995_national.csv text/csv 2.1 MB 02/04/2025 11:12:AM
YRBS_1997_national.csv text/csv 3 MB 02/04/2025 11:12:AM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) National Datasets, 1991-2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-02-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E217921V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) National Datasets, 1991-2021
Summary:  View help for Summary
"The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a set of surveys that track behaviors that can lead to poor health in students grades 9 through 12. The surveys are administered every other year. Some of the health-related behaviors and experiences monitored are:

* Student demographics: sex, sexual identity, race and ethnicity, and grade
* Youth health behaviors and conditions: sexual, injury and violence, bullying, diet and physical activity, obesity, and mental health, including suicide
* Substance use behaviors: electronic vapor product and tobacco product use, alcohol use, and other drug use
* Student experiences: parental monitoring, school connectedness, unstable housing, and exposure to community violence"

(Taken from https://web.archive.org/web/20231011104407/https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/overview.htm)


This deposit consists of ASCII datasets, SAS input syntax, and .csv datasets for the National YRBS/YRBSS datasets for 1991-2021.  The data were downloaded in October of 2023 for a student who wished to use the data for a thesis.




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