Abstract
The Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) was developed in 1998 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) to provide states with data needed to design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive tobacco control programs. The YTS is a school-based survey of adolescents in grades 6 through 12 usually conducted only in public schools but also in private schools when a state elects to do so. State departments of health field the YTS during the fall or spring term of an academic year at their discretion. Examining correlates and trends in response rates is important since response rates are often used as a measure of survey quality. We could not locate any studies that have examined seasonal variation in response rates to selfadministered, school-based surveys. To test the hypothesis that the fall is more favorable for increasing response rates to school-based surveys than the spring, we included YTS surveys conducted from 2000–2008. The word ‘season’ is equivalent to ‘term’ in our analysis, and we use the two words interchangeably.
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