Documentation
Add Health provides users with large and complex longitudinal data sets. Below is a list of resources available to Add Health researchers to aid in understanding the study design, data, and how to analyze the data.
Study Documentation
Detailed documentation designed to help users understand the study design, methodology, data sets, and guidelines for analyzing the data.
Data Documentation
A comprehensive resource that catalogs all available datasets, including file details, access information, data user guides and codebooks defining variables and data layout.
Add Health Contextual Variable Inventory
The Add Health Contextual Variable Inventory is designed to allow researchers to browse or search through the available variables included in all Add Health contextual datasets.
Use this interactive tool to browse questions by topic or search for questions by variable name, keyword, or phrase in order to discover the data collected during Waves I-V interviews by Add Health.
Add Health Navigator
Metadata discovery tool to explore wave to wave variable comparison for Waves I-VI interview/survey, parent, and in-school data and to search and create custom codebooks for all restricted data.