Important Update for The Add Health Study

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The Add Health Study Changes Its Name as the Cohort Grows Up

The Add Health study is the largest longitudinal study of adolescent health ever undertaken in the United States, providing data for more than 10,000 researchers around the world who have published more than 5,000 articles.  Add Health has recently changed its formal name to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to reflect the study’s prospective developmental tracking of individuals from early adolescence into adulthood.  The study was previously named the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.  The name change coincides with the recent National Institutes of Health funding that will enable Add Health to follow the original adolescent cohort into their 30s with a fifth interview wave that will begin in 2015.

Add Health researchers should use the new study name in all publications, presentations and reports based on analysis of Add Health data, as well as grant submissions that reference Add Health, and when citing the Add Health research design. 

To reference the research design of Add Health data, please use the following citation:

Harris, K.M., C.T. Halpern, E. Whitsel, J. Hussey, J. Tabor, P. Entzel, and J.R. Udry. 2009. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health: Research Design [WWW document]. URL: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/design

Add Health researchers should use the following acknowledgement in written reports and other publications based on analysis of Add Health data:

This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.

For more information about Add Health please visit: www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth