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Codebook for Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System dataset

Codebook: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) Dataset

Where to find it

Option 1: load this dataset from the openintro package:

Option 2: load this dataset manually

Dataset Overview

This dataset contains information from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), including demographic details, health behaviors, and other related information. The dataset includes 13,583 observations with 13 variables. The openintro package also provides a sample of n=100 from this dataset titled yrbss_samp.

Variables

age

  • Description: Age of the respondent
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: Range from 12 to 18
  • Missing values: 77

gender

  • Description: Gender of the respondent
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: male, female
  • Missing values: 12

grade

  • Description: Grade of the respondent
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: Range from 9 to 12, plus “other”
  • Missing values: 79

hispanic

  • Description: Hispanic ethnicity of the respondent
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: hispanic, not
  • Missing values: 231

race

  • Description: Race of the respondent
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: Various race categories (e.g., Black or African American, White, Asian, etc.)
  • Missing values: 2,805

height

  • Description: Height of the respondent in meters
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: Range from 1.27 to 2.11 meters
  • Missing values: 1,004

weight

  • Description: Weight of the respondent in kilograms
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: Range from 29.94 to 180.99 kilograms
  • Missing values: 1,004

helmet_12m

  • Description: Frequency of wearing a helmet in the past 12 months
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: never, rarely, sometimes, most of time, always, did not ride
  • Missing values: 311

text_while_driving_30d

  • Description: Frequency of texting while driving in the past 30 days
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: never, 0, 1-2, 3-5, 6-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30, did not drive
  • Missing values: 918

physically_active_7d

  • Description: Number of days physically active in the past 7 days
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: Range from 0 to 7 days
  • Missing values: 273

hours_tv_per_school_day

  • Description: Hours spent watching TV per school day
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: do not watch, <1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+
  • Missing values: 338

strength_training_7d

  • Description: Number of days doing strength training in the past 7 days
  • Type: Numeric
  • Values: Range from 0 to 7 days
  • Missing values: 1,176

school_night_hours_sleep

  • Description: Hours of sleep on a school night
  • Type: Categorical
  • Values: Range from <5 to 10+ hours
  • Missing values: 1,248

Summary Statistics

Data Quality Notes

  • The dataset has missing values in multiple columns.
  • Some inherently numeric data are coded as character with bins. Some analyses may benefit from recoding as ordered factor or numeric.
    • text_while_driving_30d
    • hours_tv_per_school_day
    • school_night_hours_sleep

Acknowledgements

This codebook was drafted by Microsoft Copilot and edited by Levi Waldron.