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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

May 13, 2026

Peer Influence on Smoking Behaviors Across Social Networks: Evidence from the Add Health Study

Smoking behavior among adolescents is influenced by their social networks. Using data from two high schools with different network structures in Add Health, Wang et...
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May 6, 2026

Add Health Presentations at PAA

Add Health is pleased to be at the Population Association of America’s Annual Meeting this week. Throughout the conference, researchers using Add Health data will...
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April 28, 2026

New Data Available!

The following data is now available from Add Health: Wave VI Baroreflex Sensitivity and Hemodynamic Recovery This file contains constructed measures for baroreflex sensitivity, heart...
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