Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) data request – 3/29/10

Q: North Carolina is in the process of setting our Healthy North Carolina 2020 goals. In order to set reasonable targets, we need Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) comparison data from other states from 1999-2009.

  1. Do other states have public use YTS data files? If so, can we get them?
  2. We are specifically interested in “High School Current Use of Any Tobacco Product” as measured in the YTS. If these rates are available for your state (1999-2009, or as close as possible to these dates) could you please send them?

A:

  1. California: For question 1, we have data from 2001-02 (This survey in CA has been done every other year), and if you send a request to nicole.kwon@cdph.ca.gov, we can send the data files.
     
    For question 2, you can refer to our technical findings and documentation for other tobacco use (detail information in Chapter 2) through this website. Currently, reports on 01-02, 03-04, and 05-06 are available through this website.
     
  2. Illinois: Here are the links for YTS data:
     
  3. Indiana: Indiana’s 2008 YTS report.
     
  4. Iowa: The latest Iowa YTS report can be found at this website.
     
  5. Kentucky: We publish a report on the YTS, but have never given our data to another entity to analyze. Click to see Kentucky’s report.
     
  6. Minnesota: We have not prepared a public use dataset for our YTS surveys, although we could. We have been able to handle all the requests for special runs ourselves, and so far no one has needed their own data file to do analysis.
     
    Regarding your specific question, see Table 2 on page 4 of the this report. This table shows survey results for all our survey years -- 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008.
     
  7. Missouri: Here are fact sheets from all the years we have conducted the YTS:  
  8. Nebraska: The Nebraska High School YTS data for 2006 are attached in response to the request by North Carolina. Any tobacco use rate for 2006 among the High School students was 23.1% as shown below.
     

    9. Tob use

    Frequency

    Percent

    Cumulative

    Cumulative

     

     

     

    Frequency

    Percent

    1

    20063.04

    23.14

    20063.04

    23.14

    2

    66644.35

    76.86

    86707.39

    100

     

     

     

     

     

    Frequency Missing = 4249.606445

     

     
     
    Click to download a SAS data file of Nebraska’s 2006 YTS data.
     
  9. North Dakota: In response to North Carolina’s request for current high school any tobacco use rates from other states, North Dakota’s data for the years of 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009 are included here.
     
  10. Ohio: All of the Ohio youth tobacco reports can be found by clicking here.
     
  11. Oklahoma: This is Oklahoma’s trend data for current use of any tobacco product for both high school and middle school students.
     
  12. Virginia: Below are the data reports and accompanying data tables for the 2003, 2005, and 2007 YTS that our tobacco use control program receives from our partner, Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (formerly the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation). Data were collected every other year. Note that there may be wording differences between surveys.
     
    See attached files:
      Note that the 2003 report also includes comparison data for 2001.   If you have any questions about the data collection or survey instrument, you may contact the VFHY/VTSF by clicking here. Terri-Ann Brown and Marge White are your best contacts in that organization for getting answers about the survey data collection.
     
  13. Washington: In Washington State, the Healthy Youth Survey is implemented – a school-based health behavior survey that includes a combination of questions from YRBSS, Monitoring the Future and YTS.
     
    In 2008, we asked separate questions about current cigarette, smokeless, cigars, bidis, clove and hookah use.  We can produce an “any tobacco use” estimate, depending on the types of tobacco you are including.
     
    We survey grades 6, 8, 10 and 12 – so we don’t normally report results for high school, but we can produce a synthetic high school estimate (that we sometimes use to compare with national YRBSS).
     
    Click for more information about Washington’s youth survey.
     
  14. West Virginia 1: West Virginia’s YTS reporting is readily available on our DTP website. Additional info can be obtained by contacting Bruce Adkins (WVDTP Director) or Kathi Elkins (DTP Surveillance Epidemiologist).
     
    Editor’s Note: The YTS data can be found under the “Publications” heading on West Virginia’s website.
     
  15. West Virginia 2: Here is the WV High School YTS data for the CDC Preferred Analysis Variable 18: ctobuse (current tobacco use: among all students, those who have used any form of tobacco in the past 30 days---including cigarettes, smokeless, cigars, pipes, bidis/kreteks):
     
    16. West Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey: High School

     

    		 Total Male Female
    2000 47.9% 42.5% 52.2%
    2002 40.9% 35.9% 45.6%
    2005 34.8% 31.2% 38.0%
    2007 38.6% 29.9% 45.8%
    2009 31.9% 24.0% 39.5%

    Because this variable comes from SAS coding that CDC has developed, most states would be using the same "definition".  In fact when the CDC MMWR report comes out for YTS, this would be a table of data published in that report.  For West Virginia, we choose to define "current tobacco use of any kind" in another way, which will not be helpful to you in your quest.

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    Summary Points from the requestor in North Carolina – March 2010:
    Fourteen states sent responses to North Carolina's request for state-level YTS data. These data will be used to determine a reasonable ten year target for reduction in any tobacco use among high school students for North Carolina's Vision 2020 goals. Only a couple of states had data spanning the ten-year period of 1999-2009.
     
    One lesson we have learned from this experience is that there is no central warehouse for state-level YTS data. Having all of this data in one place would be a useful tool for anyone wanting to perform state comparisons with YTS. Specifically, a single location for any final reports written using YTS survey results could provide a quick reference for these types of inquiries. North Carolina is appreciative of all the help we have received from TCN. Thanks!

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