CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 2025
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Notes · Probability; Three-stage cluster school sample; 10,710 usable questionnaires.
References
CDC YRBS 2025 questionnaire— National HS questionnaire 2025
CDC. 2025 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) questionnaire.
instrument- Publication page:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/media/pdf/2025/2025-YRBS-national-HS-questionnaire508.pdf
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— Report
CDC (2026). Youth Health in Focus: Findings From the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015–2025. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
report- Publication page:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/yhif/files/2025/YHIF-2015-2025-Final-508.pdf
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— Technical notes & data tables
CDC (2026). Technical Notes and Data Tables for Youth Health in Focus: Findings From the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015–2025. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— Data user’s guideadditional source
CDC (2026). 2025 YRBS Data User’s Guide. September 2026.
methodology- Publication page:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/files/2025/2025-YRBS-Data-Users-Guide-Final.pdf
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— National public-use ASCII dataadditional source
CDC (2026). 2025 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey public-use data, ASCII release.
data- Retrieved from:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/files/2025/XXH2025_YRBS_Data.dat
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- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/files/2025/XXH2025_YRBS_Data.dat
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— National public-use Access dataadditional source
CDC (2026). 2025 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey public-use data, compressed Access release.
data- Retrieved from:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/files/2025/XXH2025_YRBS_Data.zip
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- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/files/2025/XXH2025_YRBS_Data.zip
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— SAS input programadditional source
CDC (2026). SAS Input Program for the 2025 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey data.
data- Publication page:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/files/2025/2025XXH-SAS-Input-Program.sas
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CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— SAS format programadditional source
CDC (2026). SAS Format Program for the 2025 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey data.
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YOSI derived from CDC (2026) YRBS 2025— Bullying derivation scriptadditional source
Youth Online Safety Index (2026). Overall bullying point estimates derived from CDC 2025 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey public-use data.
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CDC. YRBSS Data and Documentation — National 2025 datasets.
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Study details & methodology
| Name | “Youth Risk Behavior Survey” 2025 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey; CDC is the sponsoring agency. |
| Country | “generalized to the U.S. student population in public, parochial, and other private schools in grades 9–12.” National U.S. public, parochial, and other private-school students in grades 9–12. |
| Publication year | “Services; 2026.” Publication year 2026; the survey wave is 2025. |
| Fieldwork dates | “2025 cycle” 2025 fieldwork cycle; exact months are not specified in these sources. |
| Sample size | “10,710 questionnaires were usable.” Usable national sample, after editing. Item-level denominators differ. |
| Age range | “students in grades 9–12” Grade-defined high-school population, not a closed 14–18 age interval. National questionnaire Q1 has categories from age 12 or younger through 18 or older. |
| Sampling | “three-stage cluster sample design” Probability sampling of geographical primary units, schools, and classrooms; nationally representative of U.S. public and private-school grades 9–12. |
Harms measured
| Bullying | “During the past 12 months, have you ever been electronically bullied? (Count being bullied through texting, Instagram, Facebook, or other social media.)…” “The next 2 questions ask about bullying. Bullying is when 1 or more students tease, threaten, spread rumors about, hit, shove, or hurt another student over and over again. It is not bullying when 2 students of about the same strength or power argue or fight or tease each other in a friendly way.”Response options: A. Yes B. No National Q27, past 12 months. Instagram and Facebook are examples, not app-specific answer fields. |
Offline or broader-context measurement
| Bullying | “During the past 12 months, have you ever been bullied on school property?…” “The next 2 questions ask about bullying. Bullying is when 1 or more students tease, threaten, spread rumors about, hit, shove, or hurt another student over and over again. It is not bullying when 2 students of about the same strength or power argue or fight or tease each other in a friendly way.”Response options: A. Yes B. No National Q26 measures bullying on school property during the past 12 months. This can overlap electronic bullying and is not exclusively offline. |