National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008: Education Data [Restricted Use] (ICPSR 27030)

Principal Investigator(s): Harris, Kathleen Mullan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Udry, J. Richard, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Muller, Chandra, University of Texas at Austin

Summary: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-1995 school year. The Add Health cohort has been followed into young adulthood with four in-home interviews, the most recent in 2008, when the sample was aged 24-32. Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological, and physical well-being with contextual ... (more info)

Series: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), Restricted Data Series

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Harris, Kathleen Mullan, J. Richard Udry, and Chandra Muller. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008: Education Data [Restricted Use]. ICPSR27030-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-11-21. doi:10.3886/ICPSR27030.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27030.v2

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Public Health and Science. Office of Minority Health
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of General Medical Sciences
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Public Health and Science. Office of Population Affairs
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01-HD31921)
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Cancer Institute
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Nursing Research
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Office of AIDS Research
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Office of Research on Women's Health
• National Science Foundation
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics
• United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities

Summary:   The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-1995 school year. The Add Health cohort has been followed into young adulthood with four in-home interviews, the most recent in 2008, when the sample was aged 24-32. Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological, and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships, providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviors in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. The fourth wave of interviews expanded the collection of biological data in Add Health to understand the social, behavioral, and biological linkages in health trajectories as the Add Health cohort ages through adulthood. The files contained in this component of the Add Health project are from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) study and provide an opportunity to examine the effects of education on adolescent behavior, academic achievement, and cognitive and psychosocial development in the 1990s. The AHAA study contributes to the Add Health by providing the high school transcripts of Add Health Wave III sample members. The AHAA data provides indicators of (1) educational achievement, (2) course taking patterns, (3) curricular exposure, and (4) educational contexts within and between schools, all of which can be linked to the Add Health survey data. For more information, please see the <a href = "http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth"> study website</a>.

Subject Terms:   academic achievement, adolescents, alcohol consumption, birth control, classroom environment, contraception, dating (social), drinking behavior, drug use, eating habits, educational environment, families, family planning, family relationships, family structure, friendships, health, health behavior, health care access, health status, household composition, interpersonal relations, living arrangements, marriage, neighborhood characteristics, neighborhoods, parent child relationship, parental attitudes, parental influence, physical characteristics, physical condition, physical fitness, physical limitations, pregnancy history, public assistance programs, religious behavior, religious beliefs, school attendance, self concept, self esteem, sexual attitudes, sexual behavior, smoking, social environment, social networks, tobacco use, violent behavior, welfare services

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 1994--2008

Date of Collection:  

• 1994--2008

Unit of Observation:   individual

Universe:   Adolescents in grades 7-12 and their families.

Data Types:   survey data

Data Collection Notes:

Author acknowledgement for each dataset in this study:

• DS1 Wave 3 Education Data

  Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Chandra Muller, Kenneth Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller

• DS2 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Courses Component, English

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS3 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Courses Component, Foreign Language

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS4 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Courses Component, History and Social Sciences

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS5 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Courses Component, Math, Science, and Overall

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS6 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Courses Component, Physical Education

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS7 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Networks, Course Overlap 94

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS8 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Networks, Course Overlap 95

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS9 Wave 3 Education Data, Academic Networks, Local Positions

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS10 Wave 3 Education Data, Contextual Component, Common Core Data

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS11 Wave 3 Education Data, Contextual Component, U.S. Census Data

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS12 Wave 3 Education Data, Contextual Component, 1990 Census Data

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS13 Wave 3 Education Data, Contextual Component, Office of Civil Rights Data

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS14 Wave 3 Education Data, Postsecondary Contextual Component Data

  Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, Amy G. Langenkamp, Jennifer Pearson

• DS15 Wave 3 Education Data, Contextual Component, Private School Survey

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS16 Wave 3 Education Data, Course-Level File, Edubasic

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS17 Wave 3 Education Data, Math Curriculum Component, Auxiliary

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS18 Wave 3 Education Data, Math Course-Level Curriculum Component

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS19 Wave 3 Education Data, Math Course-Level Curriculum Imputed Component

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS20 Wave 3 Education Data, Math Curriculum Component, Summary

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS21 Wave 3 Education Data, Science Curriculum Component, Auxiliary

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS22 Wave 3 Education Data, Science Course-Level Curriculum Component

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS23 Wave 3 Education Data, Science Course-Level Curriculum Imputed Component

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS24 Wave 3 Education Data, Science Curriculum Component, Summary

  Kathryn S. Schiller, Chandra Muller, William H. Schmidt, Richard Houang, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Pearson, Kenneth A. Frank

• DS25 Wave 3 Education Data, Linking Component

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS26 Wave 3 Education Data, School Graduation Credit Requirements

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS27 Wave 3 Graduation Data

  Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Chandra Muller, Kenneth Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller

• DS28 Wave 3 Education Data, Primary Component, School-Level Disposition Indicators

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS29 Wave 3 Education Data, Primary Component, School Characteristics

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS30 Wave 3 Education Data, Primary

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS31 Wave 3 Education Data, Transition

  Chandra Muller, Jennifer Pearson, Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Kenneth A. Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller, R. Kelly Raley, Amy G. Langenkamp, Sarah Crissey, Anna Strassmann Mueller, Rebecca Callahan, Lindsey Wilkinson, Samuel Field

• DS32 Wave 3 Education Data Weights

  Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Chandra Muller, Kenneth Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller

• DS33 Add Health School Weights

  Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Chandra Muller, Kenneth Frank, Kathryn S. Schiller

Wave I and Wave II field work was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago. Wave III field work was conducted by the Research Triangle Institute.

Study Purpose:   The Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) study provides an opportunity to examine the effects of education on adolescent behavior, academic achievement, and cognitive and psychosocial development in the 1990s.

Sample:   Wave I, Stage 1 School sample: stratified, random sample of all high schools in the United States. A school was eligible for the sample if it included an 11th grade and had a minimum enrollment of 30 students. A feeder school, a school that sent graduates to the high school and that included a 7th grade, was also recruited from the community. Wave I, Stage 2: An in-home sample of 27,000 adolescents was drawn consisting of a core sample from each community plus selected special over samples. Eligibility for over samples was determined by an adolescent's responses on the In-School Questionnaire. Adolescents could qualify for more than one sample. In addition, parents were asked to complete a questionnaire about family and relationships. The Wave II in-home interview sample is the same as the Wave I in-home interview sample, with a few exceptions. Information about neighborhoods/communities was gathered from a variety of previously published databases. Wave III: The in-home Wave III sample consists of Wave I respondents who could be located and re-interviewed six years later. Wave III also collected High School Transcript Release Forms as well as samples of urine and saliva.

Mode of Data Collection:   audio computer-assisted self interview (ACASI), record abstracts, computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI), computer-assisted self interview (CASI), computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), coded on-site observation, cognitive assessment test, face-to-face interview, paper and pencil interview (PAPI), self-enumerated questionnaire, on-site questionnaire, telephone interview

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Performed consistency checks.
• Standardized missing values.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  2010-01-26

Version History:

• 2011-11-21 Revised author listings per Principal Investigator's request.
• 2011-02-18 Title, summary, and collection dates were updated to reflect an additional data collection wave in 2008.
• 2010-02-04 Codebooks and documentation were made available for public download.

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