National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), 1994-2008: Core Files [Restricted Use] (ICPSR 27021)
Principal Investigator(s):
Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill;
J. Richard Udry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27021.v11
Version V11
This data collection has been deaccessioned; it is no longer distributed by ICPSR.
Additional information may be available in Collection Notes.
2014-06-30: This study has been deaccessioned and is no longer distributed by ICPSR or DSDR. More information on accessing Add Health restricted-use data can be found on the Add Health website.
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 biological linkages in health trajectories as the Add Health cohort ages through adulthood. The Add Health core data files are comprised of the Waves I-IV In-Home Interview data and corresponding In-Home Interview section detail data; Wave I In-School Questionnaire data, Wave I and II School Administrator data; School Information data; and six Add Health Weights file data. For more information, please see the study website.
Funding
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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics
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. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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. Office of Research on Women's Health
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. Office of Public Health and Science. Office of Minority Health
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. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health
National Science Foundation
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
Restrictions
All data in this study are restricted and are available under Restricted Data Use Agreement.
Time Period(s)
1994 -- 2008
Date of Collection
1994 -- 2008
Data Collection Notes
2014-06-30: This study has been deaccessioned and is no longer distributed by ICPSR or DSDR. More information on accessing Add Health restricted-use data can be found on the Add Health website.
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.
Universe
Adolescents in grades 7-12 and their families.
Unit(s) of Observation
individual
survey data
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
Original Release Date
2010-01-26Version Date
2014-06-30
Version History
2012-05-09 The updated Part 12 file has been released.
2012-05-02 Updated part 12 of the study with a new corrected file. Variable H4BPCLS has been corrected in this new data file for part 12. The documentation for part 12 has been updated to reflect the corrected variable H4BPCLS. Part 29: Variable AID in part 29 originally was 8 digits and had been truncated to 7 digits during ICPSR processing. The AID variable has been fixed back to the original 8 digits. Only the data have been updated.
2011-12-01 Updated weight dataset and added/updated weight documentation.
2012-09-12 Two documentation files, namely the Wave III In-Home Interview Data Codebook, along with the Original Add Health Wave III In-Home Interview Data Codebook, have been updated for part 3.
2010-01-26 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.
2010-04-22 A change was made to two variables labels in Part 12. Value labels and question text were added to Parts 2, 6, 12, 15, and 21.
2010-06-02 A minor revision was made to the codebooks for parts 1, 2, 3, and 12.
2012-02-14 Updated pt28 to correct a truncation of the AID variable.
2012-02-06 An error was discovered in a few variables for part 12, so the data and documentation was updated.
2011-04-11 At PI's request, the original Parent and Adolescent codebooks were added to part 1 as separate documents
2011-02-18 Title, summary, and collection dates were updated to reflect an additional data collection wave in 2008.
2010-05-11 A variable width had to be changed so the ASCII version of the data file would work correctly.
2012-03-02 Updated pt28 to include a variable that was accidentally removed at the last update.
2011-07-05 Part 12 was updated to correct an error in the value labels for a variable, and another small error was corrected in the rp27021-00028.pdf file.
2011-12-19 Added another weight file for users who already have the rest of the data. Updated a variable in pt12.
2013-07-24 The Codebook for Wave IV In-Home Interview section 16A has been updated. On the variables H4TR7 and H4TR8, the asterisk has been removed from the Questions and placed next to the value label "Missing."
2010-06-23 A minor change was made for two variable labels for Part 12.
2010-09-02 The Weight file for Wave IV was revised to include updated information on five participants.
2010-02-03 Codebooks and documentation were made available for public download.
2013-01-17 Per Add Health's request, the data and documentation related to Part 29 (Wave IV Weights Data for Previous Users) have been removed from this study. Further, a minor edit was made to the codebooks for parts 1, 2, 3, and 12.
2011-04-22 A small error in the question text was discovered.