Version Date: Jun 30, 2014 View help for published
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Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill;
J. Richard Udry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill;
Chandra Muller, University of Texas at Austin
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32421.v1
Version V1
This version of the data collection 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.
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. The additional 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 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.
Export Citation:
These data are enclave-only and may only be accessed at ICPSR's location in Ann Arbor, MI. Users wishing to view these data must first contact DSDR, complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement (available as part of the documentation for this study), and receive permission to analyze the files before traveling to Ann Arbor. More information may be found at ICPSR's Enclave Data Web site.
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.
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.
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 20,745 adolescents consisting of a core sample from each community plus selected special oversamples was interviewed in 1995. Eligibility for the oversamples was determined by the adolescent's responses on the In-School Questionnaire. Adolescents could qualify for more than one sample. At Wave II, respondents who were in grades 7-11 at Wave I were re-interviewed. 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 to be used for the AHAA study. At Wave IV, 15,701 Wave I respondents were re-interviewed in 2008.
Adolescents in grades 7-12 and their families.
High school course transcripts
2011-12-21
2012-09-10 The following three pages have been added to the Restricted Data Use Agreement for this study: a "General Information and Checklists" page, a "Using the Add Health Transcript Data in the ICPSR-DSDR Secure Data Enclave" page, and a page titled "ATTACHMENT A: Output Disclosure Risk Checks."
2011-12-21 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: