Featured News and Research Highlights
December 5, 2024
Abortion Policy and Socioeconomic Outcomes
Abortion remains a stigmatized and often restricted medical procedure, making it difficult to study due to underreporting. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a nearly 30 year survey tracking Americans from adolescence into adulthood, this study investigates the relationship between abortion access...
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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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