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DASH - Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System [YRBSS]: Middle School

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1991-2017. Middle School Dataset. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System [YRBSS] monitors six categories of priority health behaviors among youth and young adults: 1] behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; 2] tobacco use; 3] alcohol and other drug use; 4] sexual behaviors related to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections [STIs], including human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection; 5] unhealthy dietary behaviors; and 6] physical inactivity. In addition, YRBSS monitors the prevalence of obesity and asthma and other priority health behaviors.

Dataset Type	Generic
Keywords	youth online, risk behavior, survey, middle school, yrbs
Primary Associated Project	Chronic Disease Indicators, Prevention, and Risk Factors Datasets CDC
Storage Organization	University of Virginia
HIPAA Identifiers	N/A: Not derived from Medical Records
Data Granularity	NONE
Other Sensitive Data	NONE
Link to External Dataset File	https://data.cdc.gov/d/k5bc-k3g8