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Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages Across the Life Course

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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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User Guides

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

Codebooks

PDF codebooks for coding responses and documenting the layout and code definitions of the data files.

Add Health Navigator

Metadata discovery tool to explore and create custom codebooks, as well as provide a wave to wave variable comparison for Waves I-VI.

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.

Ancillary Studies

Submit an application to add new contextual or biological data to the Add Health data sets, including data linkages.

News and Announcements

February 22, 2024

Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris Awarded Infrastructure Prize for Sociology 2023 by the Kohli Foundation

The Kohli Foundation for Sociology awarded Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris the prestigious Infrastructure Prize for Sociology 2023 for her work on Add Health. The Kohli...
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November 17, 2023

Submit Your Abstract for the 2024 Add Health Users Conference

Add Health is now accepting abstracts for the 2024 Users Conference. Any papers using Add Health data are welcome, include both substantive & methodological topics....
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November 6, 2023

Add Health Attending the GSA 2023 Conference

Add Health will be attending the Gerontological Society of America's (GSA) annual meeting this week on November 8-11, 2023 in Tampa, Florida. Learn how the...
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