2.4. Self-Report Statistics 
SHANELL SANCHEZ 
Self-report statistics are stats that are reported by individuals. Self-report statistics get gathered when people 
are asked to report the number of times they may have committed a particular crime during a set period in 
the past, regardless of getting caught or not. For example, in-class students take a criminal activity checklist 
and report behaviors they have engaged in at some point in their lives. People should be honest since the data 
has no identifying information collected, and report even if no one ever found out what we find during class 
time it that all the students, for over eight years of teaching, have committed a crime. However, the amount 
of students that have to get caught is minimal, especially those that received formal sanctioning from the CJ 
system (funneling of crime). 
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary 
school students, college students, and young adults. Each year, a total of approximately 50,000 8th, 10th, 
and 12th-grade students get surveyed (12th graders since 1975, and eighth and 10th graders since 1991). 
Besides, annual follow-up questionnaires are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for some years 
after their initial participation. The Monitoring the Future Study has been funded under a series of 
investigator-initiated competing research grants from theNational Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the 
National Institutes of Health. MTF is conducted at the 
Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at theUniversity of Michigan. 
Monitoring the Future Drug Use Amongst Teens 
How do we get estimates on drug use amongst teens if most of them do not get caught? We rely on reports 
like the one above from the MTF. Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of substance use 
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