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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.

May 31, 2023

New Data Release

The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers.  Polygenic Index Inventories – Release 2This data file is a 2022 update of the...
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Robert Hummer, a Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and fellow at the Carolina Population Center, teaches a course on how to integrate the social and biological sciences
April 20, 2023

Add Health Director, Dr. Robert Hummer, elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday, April 19th, the newest members of its prestigious academy. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of...
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School buses on road
March 20, 2023

New Data Release from Add Health

Wave I & II School District Grouping Data To facilitate clustering by school district, the school district identifiers comprising this file are based on the...
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