Featured News and Research Highlights
September 30, 2024
New Data Release from Add Health
The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. The Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) CodesRural-urban commuting area (RUCA) codes classify U.S. census tracts using measures of population density, urbanization, and daily commuting. The data file including them is based on RUCA codes for census years 1990, 2000, and 2010....
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September 23, 2024
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Key Findings from Add Health’s Research on Hispanic American Communities
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage month, September 15 to October 15, Add Health would like to highlight some of the important discoveries our researchers have found thanks to our Hispanic American participants. High educational aspirations, high expectations about attending college, high parent-child relationship quality, and high friends’ GPAs were...
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September 11, 2024
New Data Format for Add Health Restricted-Use Data
Add Health is excited to announce that beginning in September 2024, we will release restricted-use data in SAS7BDAT format instead of SAS Transport XPT format. In addition, the structure for the reserve codes that explain missing values will be changed. The old version, which were of dynamic length based on...
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August 21, 2024
Important and Exciting Announcement for Add Health Data Restricted-Use Contract Holders
In collaboration with the UNC Chief Information Officer and the Research Computing Unit at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Add Health is making the UNC Secure Research Workspace (UNC SRW) available for restricted-use contract researchers to analyze Add Health data in UNC’s enterprise secure data enclave free...
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