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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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Key Resources

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

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November 3, 2022

New Data Release

Add Health has released the following data for contract users: Wave V Hepatic Injury This file contains constructed measures designed to facilitate analysis and interpretation...
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October 24, 2022

Add Health Attending the GSA Conference

Add Health is excited to be attending the 2022 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Conference from November 2 - 6, 2022. Visit the Add...
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September 28, 2022

Covid-19 not the only reason for drop in U.S. Life expectancy – UNC interviews Add Health Director Dr. Robert Hummer

Life expectancy at birth in the United States declined for the second year in a row in 2021 and is now 76.1 years. The University...
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