High School - Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
- High School - Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) (Wore helmet, Never or rarely wore a seat belt, Rode with someone drinking alcohol, Carried a weapon, In a Physical Fight, Seriously considered suicide, Made a suicide plan, Attempted suicide, Lifetime Alcohol Use , Past Month Alcohol Use, Binge drinking, Lifetime Marijuana Use, Past Month Marijuana Use, Lifetime Smoking, Smoking at School, Percentage of students who used chewing tobacco, snuff, or dip on one or more of the past 30 days, Tried to Quit Smoking, Past month smoking, explain series data)
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors priority health-risk
behaviors and the prevalence of obesity and asthma among young youth and
young adults. The YRBS is a school-based survey conducted by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state, territorial,
tribal, and district surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local
education and health agencies and tribal governments. All regular
public schools containing grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 were included in
the sampling frame. Schools were selected systematically with
probability proportional to enrollment in grades 6 through 12 using a
random start. The YRBS is conducted biennially every odd year, usually
in the spring semester.
Some of the data from the YRBS that is presented here results from
questions that are also used in the PNA Survey. Values between the two
surveys may vary and should not be considered comparable. The YRBS
provides only state level data for Wyoming whereas the PNA provides
county level data as well.