Home

Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages Across the Life Course

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.

Home Page

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.

Home Page

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

February 28, 2023

Panel: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) an Introduction to Analysis of Innovative and Sensitive Information within a Secured Computing Environment

Add Health Director, Dr. Robert Hummer, will participate in the Center For Studies in Demography & Ecology (CSDE) Seminar series on Friday, March 3rd at...
Read More
February 21, 2023

New Data Release from Add Health

The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers.  Historical Neighborhood RedliningThis contextual database allows researchers to identify potential long-term consequences of redlining...
Read More
Woman at a virtual conference.
February 13, 2023

Warts and all: successes and failures in population health grant writing

Former Add Health Director, Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris, will join panelists to speak at the Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health (IAPHS) webinar, “Warts and All:...
Read More
1 … 11 12 13 14 15 … 22

© Copyrights, Carolina Population Center
Add Health