Youth Smoking Survey                        2006  (yss)

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The Youth Smoking Survey (YSS) 2006 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

                      /2006
				/data
				/doc

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DATA FILE(S):  /data/

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filename                      	description

main_bootstrap-sav.zip          SPSS .sav file  
main_public-sav.zip             SPSS .sav file
supp_bootstrap-sav.zip          SPSS .sav file
supplemental_public-sav.zip     SPSS .sav file


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DOCUMENTATION(S):  /doc/

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Filename                                  Description

yss06_english_survey_a.pdf                  YSS Module A
yss06_english_survey_b1.pdf                 YSS Module B1
yss06_english_survey_b2.pdf                 YSS Module B2
yss06_student_codebook_main.pdf             Codebook for main data set
yss06_student_codebook_supplemental.pdf     Codebook for supplemental data set
yss06_student_microdata_pub_main.pdf        User guide for main PUMF
yss06_student_microdata_pub_supplemental.pdf User guide for supplemental PUMF
yss06_user_main.pdf                          Main microdata user guide
yss06_user_guide_supplemental.pdf            Guide for use of supplemental data

Download date:

February 8, 2010
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