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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-V).

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 11, 2026

Study using Add Health Data Featured in New York Times

Recently featured in The New York Times, a study by R.C. Whitaker et al. used Add Health data to examine the link between adolescents’ sense...
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January 29, 2026

Add Health Attending PAA

Add Health will be at the Population Association of America’s (PAA) Annual Meeting, held May 6–9, 2026, in St. Louis, Missouri. The meeting brings together...
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January 15, 2026

New Data Available from Add Health

Add Health is excited to announce the release of three new biomarker datasets: Wave VI Biomarker Weights Wave VI Renal Function Wave VI Neurodegeneration In...
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