YRBSS Results

  • CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors priority health behaviors and experiences among students across the country.
  • The results help in understanding the factors that contribute to the leading causes of illness, death, and disability among youth and young adults.

Compare High School Data

State and National Comparisons

Find selected state prevalence estimates and confidence intervals and compare them to national data based on t-test analyses.

*States listed had representative data for the 2019 YRBS. With weighted data, it is possible to say, for example, X% of high school students in our state smoked cigarettes during the past month.


District and National Comparisons

Find selected district prevalence estimates and confidence intervals and compare them to national data based on t-test analyses.

*Districts listed had representative data for the 2019 YRBS. With representative data, it is possible to say, for example, “X% of high school students in our state smoked cigarettes during the past month.