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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)

Metadata Updated: April 25, 2021

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors 6 types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including: behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV infection; alcohol and other drug use; tobacco use; unhealthy dietary behaviors; inadequate physical activity. YRBSS also measures the prevalence of obesity and asthma among youth and young adults. YRBSS includes a national school-based survey conducted by CDC and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 25, 2021

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 25, 2021
Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services
Maintainer
Identifier 83a48652-f4c3-4d9c-8f04-3e59b6a50878
Data First Published 2013-05-01
Data Last Modified 2021-03-12
Category Health, National
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:20
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id c298e6cf-9485-4b79-86b2-c0517b9938fc
Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/youth-risk-behavior-surveillance-system-yrbss
License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Program Code 009:027
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e53606e6296abcf3a396e2e98033529111767b5a
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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