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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.

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Add Health data used to study eating disorder behaviors in adolescence and adulthood

Add Health collected information on nutrition, eating habits and weight perception during the Wave I interview when respondents were in middle and high school. These...
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September 11, 2019

Suicide Ideation and Behaviors in Adolescents and Young Adults (Suicide Prevention Week)

Researchers use Add Health Data to Discover Suicide Prevention Methods
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