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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year and have been followed for six waves of data collection to date, most recently in 2022-25.

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Key Resources

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-VI).

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

August 17, 2023

New Data Release

The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. All Coded Causes of Death File, Including Entity-Axis Codes, 2021 This file contains all...
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August 8, 2023

Announcing the 2024 Add Health Users Conference

Save the date! The 2024 Add Health Users Conference will take place on Monday, June 17, 2024, and Tuesday, June 18, 2024, at the Rizzo...
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June 13, 2023

Add Health attending SER 2023 in Portland, OR.

Add Health is excited to be attending the Society for Epidemiological Research 2023 Conference in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday, June 13th to Friday, June 16th....
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