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    • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 2025

    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 July 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025
    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 2023-07-26
    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 576d9ae5-c7d8-433c-a398-65397a9b8132
    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 76c63c1fd7c1cec0b1415a9bf82e30f70b932df84f8ee062386d9c9c8f462f5e
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/1991-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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