Are You Interested in Studying Adolescent Health? CSDE Now Hosts Add Health Data!
Posted: 5/21/2023 (CSDE Research)
If you’re interested in studying adolescent social and health development across the life course, along with rich social, biological, and health data, you might consider proposing research with the Add Health Study data. CSDE now hosts the restricted-use, Add Health study data modules on the UW Data Collaborative.
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health) is a the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal survey of adolescents ever undertaken, with a US-representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and who have been followed for five waves to date, most recently up to 2016-18. New data sets are added periodically, and the full restricted data catalog can be viewed at the CPC Data Portal.
The survey data contain demographic, social, familial, socioeconomic, behavioral, psychosocial, cognitive, and health survey data. Other information includes school, neighborhood, and other contextual information, as well as biological data, such as genetic markers, blood-based assays, and anthropometrics. Add Health provides publicly accessible data containing a subset of the full sample as well as restricted-use data sets containing data on all study participants. CSDE’s contract with Add Health allows authorized researchers to use the complete restricted-use data sets on our secure servers.
The CSDE Seminar Series hosted a panel on Add Health on March 3, 2020, with presentations from Dr. Robert Hummer (Add Health director), Sydney Will (Add Health Data Dissemination & Contracts Manager), Dr. Luciana Hebert (Assistant Research Professor at WSU), and Dr. Philip Hurvitz (CSDE Research Scientist and UWDC Director). We covered a brief introduction to getting access to the Add Health on the UWDC, history and uses of the Add Health study and data, and some current research using the data sets. The seminar was recorded, and the video can be viewed at https://youtu.be/DcYlqLRx1-Q?t=89.
Add Health data have been used in thousands of publications (see https://addhealth.cpc.unc.edu/publications/) and the data housed at CSDE were used in several publications (Esposito et al., 2017; Zamora-Kapoor, Hebert, Montanez, et al., 2020; Zamora-Kapoor, Hebert, Montañez, et al., 2020).
To obtain access to the data hosted by CSDE on the UWDC, see https://dcollab.uw.edu/data/add-health/