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 five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18. Over the years, Add Health has collected rich demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data from participants and their parents; a vast array of contextual data from participants’ schools, neighborhoods, and geographies of residence; and in-home physical and biological data from participants, including genetic markers, blood-based assays, anthropometric measures, and medications. Ancillary studies have added even more data over the years. Data from the project are available in various forms and have been analyzed in thousands of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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April 15, 2014
Change in application procedures for contracts to use Add Health restricted-use data
Effective May 2, 2014, the Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) project at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will no longer...
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April 1, 2014
Add Health Data Users Seminar: April 21
Bring your brown bag lunch and join us for the monthly Add Health Data Users Seminar.
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March 17, 2014
Add Health Data Users Seminar: Individual and Community-Level Correlates of Cigarette-Smoking Trajectories from Age 13 to 32 in a U.S. Population-Based Sample
Join us for this month's Add Health Data Users Seminar, March 24 from 12-1PM in CPC East Room 405B/C.
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