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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

September 11, 2024

New Data Format for Add Health Restricted-Use Data

Add Health is excited to announce that beginning in September 2024, we will  release restricted-use data in SAS7BDAT format instead of SAS Transport XPT format....
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August 21, 2024

Important and Exciting Announcement for Add Health Data Restricted-Use Contract Holders

In collaboration with the UNC Chief Information Officer and the Research Computing Unit at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Add Health is...
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August 2, 2024

Add Health Study featured in The Guardian

A recent article published by The Guardian references a study conducted by Add Health Deputy Director, Dr. Allison Aiello, and fellow researchers exploring the impacts...
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