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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year and have been followed for six waves of data collection to date, most recently in 2022-25.

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News and Announcements

September 16, 2026

Updated Acknowledgement Statement for Restricted-Use Data Contract Holders

To improve identification of the specific restricted-use data agreement under which research was conducted, Add Health is updating its required acknowledgement language. Effective immediately, researchers...
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September 10, 2026

New Data Now Available from Add Health

Add Health is excited to announce the following data are now available: Wave VI ACA Medicaid ExpansionThe Wave VI ACA Medicaid Expansion data provides the...
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September 1, 2026

Wave VII of Add Health is now funded!

We are thrilled to report that the National Institute on Aging, with support from several co-funding NIH institutes, has funded the Wave VII project, which...
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Key Resources

Study Documentation

Detailed documentation designed to help users understand the study design, methodology, data sets, and guidelines for analyzing the data.

Data Documentation

A comprehensive resource that catalogs all available datasets, including file details, access information, data user guides and codebooks defining variables and data layout.

Add Health Codebook Explorer

Use the Add Health Codebook Explorer (ACE) to view questions asked of respondents, parents, and interviewers during the In-School and In-Home interviews in Waves I through V.

Public-Use Data Sets

Access and download the public use codebooks and data sets which contain a reduced sample size (Waves I-VI).

Restricted-Use Data Sets

Access the data sets available via restricted-use contract, renew contract, add researchers, and transfer or terminate contract. Data linkages are not allowable with a restricted-use contract.

Study Design

Documentation detailing the study design of each wave of data collection, including sampling and fieldwork information.

NIH Message

On March 31, 2025, as a sponsor of this project, NIH requested that the following language be added to this website: This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.

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