Utilizing the Monitoring the Future Longitudinal Panel Data in Aging Research
Includes a Live Web Event on 12/01/2026 at 12:00 PM (EST)
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Longitudinal data collected across the life course provide unique opportunities to understand how risk factors for health in older adulthood evolve over time. The Monitoring the Future (MTF) Longitudinal Panel study (http://monitoringthefuture.org/), funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has collected data annually from national representative samples of high school seniors since 1976. The MTF Longitudinal Panel study features longitudinal data spanning from adolescence through adulthood across more than 50 cohorts (i.e., high school senior cohorts from 1976 to 2025). MTF Longitudinal Panel data encompasses a wide range of topics, including family formation, education, employment, health, public opinions, and attitudes toward government, social institutions, race relations, and more from over 120,000 individuals in the United States. As of 2023, the oldest MTF Longitudinal Panel participants were 65 years old. The workshop will introduce a valuable longitudinal and national dataset relevant to aging, allowing researchers in aging science to discover resources they may not have previously encountered.
Joy Bohyun Jang, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Joy Bohyun Jang is an Assistant Research Scientist with the Monitoring the Future (MTF) program at the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan. Her research examines human development and health from a life course perspective, with a focus on how early experiences are associated with long-term outcomes. Specifically, she studies how substance use during adolescence and young adulthood is associated with developmental milestones, disordered drug use, and health across adulthood. More recently, her work has expanded to investigate how exposure to broader structural/social environments, including residential segregation, neighborhood socioeconomic contexts, and education quality, is associated with healthy aging. She completed her PhD in Human Development and Family Science from the Ohio State University with interdisciplinary specialization in survey research and quantitative methodology. She is currently a co-investigator of the MTF Study and leads its outreach efforts, working to maximize the study’s impact.
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Agenda
| 12:00 PM | The Monitoring the Future (MTF) Project History, Data Structure, and Topics |
| 12:20 PM | MTF Documentation Download and Utilization |
| 1:00 PM | MTF Data Access and Management |
| 1:15 PM | MTF Public-Use Data Download and Management |
| 1:50 PM | Workshop Wrap-Up |
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