Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
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Texas Poison Center NetworkData Description
The Texas Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), initiated in 1991, is a federally-funded, classroom-based, paper survey conducted every two years on odd years to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute substantially to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States. This surveillance can be used to monitor the Healthy People 2030 Objectives for smoking, overweight, exercise, seat belt use, fruit and vegetable consumption, alcohol consumption, drug use, sexual activity, and other risk factors to establish intervention priorities and monitor the long-term impact of health promotion programs.
Measure Information
Percentages and confidence intervals are not displayed for sample sizes of less than 100. A confidence interval is the range of values around the sample percentage that is 95% likely to contain the actual population percentage.
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Texas Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Please email data requests to yrbss@dshs.texas.gov