America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2009
Behavior Figures
Indicator BEH1: Percentage of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students who reported smoking cigarettes daily in the past 30 days by grade, 1980–2008
SOURCE: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future Survey.
Indicator BEH2: Percentage of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students who reported having five or more alcoholic beverages in a row in the past 2 weeks by grade, 1980–2008
NOTE: Data for 8th- and 10th-grade students for all years have been revised since previous publication in America's Children due to revisions in data processing methods.
SOURCE: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future Survey.
Indicator BEH3: Percentage of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students who reported using illicit drugs in the past 30 days by grade, 1980–2008
NOTE: Use of "any illicit drug" includes any use of marijuana, LSD, other hallucinogens, crack, other cocaine, or heroin, or any use of other narcotics, amphetamines, barbiturates, or tranquilizers not under a doctor's orders. For 8th- and 10th-graders, the use of other narcotics and barbiturates has been excluded because these younger respondents appear to overreport use (perhaps because they include the use of nonprescription drugs in their responses).
SOURCE: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future Survey.
Indicator BEH4: Percentage of high school students who reported ever having had sexual intercourse by gender and selected grades, selected years 1991–2007
NOTE: Students were asked, "Have you ever had sexual intercourse?" Data are collected biennially.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.
Indicator BEH5: Rate of serious violent crimes by youth perpetrators ages 12–17, selected years 1980–2005 and 2007
NOTE: The offending rate is the ratio of the number of crimes (aggravated assault, rape, and robbery, i.e., stealing by force or threat of violence) reported to the National Crime Victimization Survey that involved at least one offender perceived by the victim to be 12–17 years of age, plus the number of homicides reported to the police that involved at least one juvenile offender, to the number of juveniles in the population. Because of changes made in the victimization survey, data prior to 1992 are adjusted to make them comparable with data collected under the redesigned methodology. Data from 2006 are not included because, due to changes in methodology, 2006 crime perpetration rates are not comparable to other years and cannot be used for yearly trend comparisons. See Criminal Victimization, 2006, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv06.htm.
SOURCE: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Supplementary Homicide Reports.