Youth Smoking Survey                        2004  (yss)

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The Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) 2004 is a Health Canada sponsored survey
of students in grades 5 through 9 and their parents. The YSS was first
administered in 1994 and was the largest and most comprehensive survey
on youth smoking behaviour since 1979. The YSS was repeated in 2002 in
order to track changes in the attitudes and behaviour of Canadian
children and adolescents with respect to tobacco. At that time, the YSS
was planned as a biennial survey. 


The YSS is a unique and important survey because reliable data on
smoking prevalence rates among young Canadians are somewhat sparse; this
is especially true for adolescents in grades 5 through 9 who are most
vulnerable to start smoking. Some information on smoking prevalence is
obtained routinely through school surveys; however, national level data
are obtained only rarely. Monitoring surveys, which address a variety of
psychoactive substances, provide only limited information on important
psychosocial and environmental factors, and rarely address behaviours,
knowledge and attitudes in a way that allows evaluation of the impact of
prevention efforts. 


The main objective of the YSS is to provide benchmark data on national
prevalence rates for students in grades 5 through 9. In addition to
prevalence rates, the YSS also offers a detailed snapshot of purchasing
behaviour, and information about the effect of continued tobacco
marketing. This information is critical to assessing the need for
increased legislative controls on tobacco, and bolstering public support
for these policy options. Without this type of monitoring, the
effectiveness of our prevention efforts cannot be gauged.


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Directory Structure:  /youth-smoking-survey

                      /2004
				/data
				/doc

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DATA FILE(S):  /data/

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filename                        description

yss2004data-bootstrap-sas.zip   SAS  
yss2004data-bootstrap-spss.zip  SAS
yss2004data-sas.zip             SPSS
yss2004data-spss.zip            SPSS


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DOCUMENTATION(S):  /doc/

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Filename                        Description

yss2004gid.pdf                  User's guide
yss2004cbk.pdf                  Codebook
yss2004freq.pdf                 Codebook with frequencies

Questionnaires

yss2004que-grade-56.pdf         Grades 5 to 6
yss2004que-grade-789.pdf        Grades 7 to 9
yss2004.sas                     SAS Codes
yss2004.sps                     SPSS Codes

Download date:

February 8, 2010
RWA