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Monitoring the Future -- Trends in Alcohol Use
HS Senior Class Cohorts of 1995 through 2008



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Alcohol Use Within Cohort -- High School Senior Classes of 1995 through 2008
Lifetime Past Year Past Month

Source: Monitoring the Future, 2009, Tables 5-5a, 5-5b and 5-5c, pp.202-13

  Lifetime Past Year Past Month
Class of: 8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade 8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade 8th Grade 10th Grade 12th Grade
1995 70.1 71.6 80.7 54.0 63.4 73.7 25.1 38.2 51.3
1996 69.3 71.1 79.2 53.7 63.9 72.5 26.1 39.2 50.8
1997 55.7 70.5 81.7 45.4 63.5 74.8 24.3 38.8 52.7
1998 55.8 71.8 81.4 46.8 65.0 74.3 25.5 40.4 52.0
1999 54.5 72.0 80.0 45.3 65.2 73.8 24.6 40.1 51.0
2000 55.3 69.8 80.3 46.5 62.7 73.2 26.2 38.8 50.0
2001 53.8 70.6 79.7 45.5 63.7 73.3 24.5 40.0 49.8
2002 52.5 71.4 78.4 43.7 65.3 71.5 23.0 41.0 48.6
2003 52.1 70.1 76.6 43.5 63.5 70.1 24.0 39.0 47.5
2004 51.7 66.9 76.8 43.1 60.0 70.6 22.4 35.4 48.0
2005 50.5 66.0 75.1 41.9 59.3 68.6 21.5 35.4 47.0
2006 47.0 64.2 72.7 38.7 58.2 66.5 19.6 35.2 45.3
2007 45.6 63.2 72.2 37.2 56.7 66.4 19.7 33.2 44.4
2008 43.9 61.5 71.9 36.7 55.8 65.5 18.6 33.8 43.1

Note: Data has been adjusted chronologically to reflect changes in drug use patterns within each senior class cohort. That is, the 10th grade and 8th grade data are taken from the corresponding 2 years and 4 years prior respectively to the year shown, for each cohort class.


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