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Social, Behavioral, and Biological Linkages Across the Life Course

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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

Add Health Wave VI
March 1, 2021

Carolina Population Center receives $38.2 million to study adult health and aging

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center has received two grants, providing an expected $38.2 million over 5 years, that together...
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February 22, 2021

New Data Release from Add Health

The following data are now available to Add Health contract researchers. HUD-Assisted Housing Supplemental Data. The supplementary data-file identifies Add Health respondents who lived in...
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Gut bacteria
January 7, 2021

New study finds a link between premature aging and gut bacteria using Add Health Wave V data

Linkages between microbiota and physiologic aging and age-related disease have typically been examined in older adults.  However, recent evidence indicates biological aging likely begins as...
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