National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS)

The National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) datasets are available for public use, so that researchers and public health managers can explore the data in detail. In addition, states can compare their estimates of prevalence of youth tobacco use with national data.

The NYTS was designed to provide national data on long-term, intermediate, and short-term indicators key to the design, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive tobacco prevention and control programs. The NYTS also serves as a baseline for comparing progress toward meeting selected Healthy People 2010 goals for reducing tobacco use among youth:

• 27–16a—adolescent in grades 6–12 exposed to tobacco advertisement and promotions on the Internet
• 27–16b—adolescent in grades 6–12 exposed to tobacco advertisement and promotions on magazines and newspapers
• 27–2e—adolescent in grades 9–12 reporting bidis use in the past 30 days

Items measured as part of the NYTS survey include correlates of tobacco use such as demographics, minors' access to tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke.

The NYTS provides nationally representative data about middle and high school youth's—

• Tobacco-related beliefs
• Attitudes
• Behaviors
• Exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco influences

Data are available in SAS^® and Microsoft Access^® formats, as well as PDFs of the questionnaire, codebook, and methodology report. If you do not have Microsoft Access^®, you may download a free version of EPI Info to view the datasets.

To extract the 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2009 files, you must have zip software. You may download a trial version of WinZip at http://www.winzip.com/.

2009 NYTS Data and Documentation

• 2009 NYTS Dataset, Format Library, and Codebook in SAS^® (1.6 MB–Zip File)
• 2009 NYTS Dataset and Code Book in Microsoft Access^® (1.8 MB–Zip File)
• 2009 NYTS Questionnaire (91 KB–Zip File)
• 2009 NYTS Methodology Report (319 KB–Zip File)

2006 NYTS Data and Documentation

• 2006 NYTS Dataset, Format Library, and Codebook in SAS^® (1.6 MB–Zip File)
• 2006 NYTS Dataset and Code Book in Microsoft Access^® (2.1 MB–Zip File)
• 2006 NYTS Questionnaire (6 MB–Zip File)
• 2006 NYTS Methodology Report (3.5 MB–Zip File)
• 2006 National Youth Tobacco Survey and Key Prevalence Indicators (PDF–81 KB)
  • Table 1: Percentage of students in middle school (grades 6–8) who were current users of any tobacco product, by product type, sex, and race/ethnicity—United States, 2004 and 2006
    (PDF–168 KB)
  • Table 2: Percentage of students in high school (grades 9–12) who were current users of any tobacco product, by product type, sex, and race/ethnicity—United States, 2004 and 2006
    (PDF–165 KB)
  • Figure: Percentage of middle school and high school students who currently use any tobacco product, by year—United States, 2000–2006 (PDF–49 KB)
• Sampling Methods for the Youth Surveillance Summary Tables, 2003–2006 (PDF–58 KB)
  • Youth Surveillance Summary Tables, 2003–2006 (PDF–1.7 MB)

2004 NYTS Data and Documentation

Please note: Notice and Correction of 2004 NYTS Data Errors.

• 2004 NYTS Dataset, Code Book, and Format Library with the Dataset in SAS^® (3.46 MB–Zip File)
• 2004 NYTS Dataset and Code Book  in Microsoft Access^® (3.81 MB–Zip File)
• 2004 NYTS Questionnaire (2.17 MB–Zip File)
• 2004 NYTS Methodology Report (4.28 MB–Zip File)

2002 NYTS Data and Documentation

• 2002 NYTS Dataset, Code Book and Format Library with the Dataset in SAS^® (1.58 MB–Zip File)
• 2002 NYTS Dataset and Code Book in Microsoft Access^® (1.71 MB–Zip File)

2000 NYTS Data and Documentation

• 2000 NYTS Dataset, Code Book and Format Library with the Dataset in SAS^® (1.88 MB–Zip File)
• 2000 NYTS Dataset and Code Book in Microsoft Access^® (2.11 MB–Zip File)

1999 NYTS Data and Documentation

• 1999 NYTS Dataset, Code Book and Format Library with the Dataset in SAS^® (788 KB–Zip File)
• 1999 NYTS Dataset and Code Book in Microsoft Access^® (825 KB–Zip File)