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The United States Youth Risk Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors the health-related behaviors and experiences of high school students. The national survey is conducted every two years and includes students in all 50 states. Surveys are also conducted at state, territorial, tribal, and local levels. The US Centers for Disease Control created the YRBSS in 1990 in order to provide data that could be used to monitor progress towards reducing student health risk behaviors. Results of YRBSS surveys have been widely used to monitor adolescent health.

Impact
There are only two repeated nationally-representative surveys which give all the information in existence about youth risk behavior; YRBSS and the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future (MTF). Every academic research study which evaluates national US trends over time in adolescent smoking, drinking, drug use, sexual activity, or other health behaviors is based on these two studies. There are no other nationally-representative sources of information about these behaviors other than YRBSS and MTF.