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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Drug Abuse Rev. 2014;7(1):29–43. doi: 10.2174/1874473707666141015220110

Table 2.

Included Survey Parameters

Sample and Population Parameters National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) Monitoring the Future (MTF) National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance Survey(YRBSS)
Sample Size (≤18 years old) ~19,000 ~50,000 ~20,000 ~15,000
Population (≤18 years old) □Students enrolled in grades 6–12
□244 public, Catholic, and other private schools
□Enrolled 8th, 10th and 12th graders
□~420 public and private secondary schools
□Residents of households and persons in noninstitutional group quarters (e.g., shelters, rooming/boarding houses, college dormitories)
□In 2012 those aged 12–17 were sampled at a rate of 87.3% on average
□Enrolled 9th–12th graders
□~158 public and private high schools
Sample Size for young adults N/Aa □~1000 college students
□~5000 young adults (defined as those aged 19–28)
□~20,000/survey (defined as those aged 18–25) N/Aa
Population surveyed for young adult population N/Aa □subsample of each 12th- grade class sample is taken
□~2,400 participants from each class selected for follow-up.
□18–25-year-olds sampled at a rate of 69.8% on average when present in sampled households or group quarters N/Aa

Adapted from methodology sections of each individual survey [4346].

a

These surveys did not conduct any studies on this particular age group.