User Guides and Documentation
Add Health staff have written detailed guides to assist analysts with understanding the data and performing unbiased analyses. They are available here in pdf format.
Design Features of Add Health
by Kathleen Mullan Harris
18 pages
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Twin Data
by Kathleen Mullan Harris, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Andrew Smolen, and Brett C. Haberstick
10 pages
Grand Sample Weights
by Roger Tourangeau and Hee-Choon Shin
25 pages
Strategies to Perform a Design-Based Analysis Using the Add Health Data
by Kim Chantala and Joyce Tabor
20 pages
Guidelines for Analyzing Add Health Data
by Kim Chantala
28 pages
Constructing Weights to Use in Analyzing Pairs of Individuals from Add Health Data
by Kim Chantala
21 pages
Biomarkers in Wave III of the Add Health Study
by the Add Health Biomarker Team
57 pages
Predictors of Nonresponse in a Longitudinal Survey of Adolescents
by William D. Kalsbeek, Juan Yang, and Robert P. Agans
6 pages
Effects of Nonresponse on the Mean Squared Error of Estimates from a Longitudinal Study
by William D. Kalsbeek, Carolyn B. Morris, and Benjamin J. Vaughn
6 pages
Non-Response in Wave III of the Add Health Study
by Kim Chantala, William D. Kalsbeek, and Eugenio Andraca
17 pages
Non-Response in Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
by Naomi Brownstein, William D. Kalsbeek, Joyce Tabor, Pamela Entzel, Eric Daza, and Kathleen Mullan Harris
22 pages
Add Health Wave IV Documentation: Cardiovascular and Anthropometric Measures
by Pamela Entzel, Eric A. Whitsel, Andrea Richardson, Joyce Tabor,
Suzanne Hallquist, Jon Hussey, Carolyn T. Halpern, and Kathleen Mullan
Harris
16 pages
Blood Pressure Monitor Calibration Form and Protocol
by Eric A. Whitsel, Joyce Tabor, Janne Groner, and Carolyn Schuft
4 pages
Add Health Field Interviewer Verification Script
by RTI International
10 pages
Add Health Wave IV Pretest Cortisol Instructions
1 page
Add Health Wave IV Pretest Cortisol Checklists
5 pages
Add Health Wave IV Pretest Cortisol Materials
1 page
Add Health Wave IV Documentation: Prescription Medication Use
by Joyce Tabor and Eric A. Whitsel
11 pages
Add Health Wave IV Documentation: Measures of Glucose Homeostasis
by Eric A. Whitsel, Joyce W. Tabor, Quynh C. Nguyen, Carmen C.
Cuthbertson, Mark H. Wener, Alan J. Potter, Ley A. Killeya-Jones, and
Kathleen Mullan Harris
16 pages
Add Health Wave IV Documentation: Candidate Genes
by Andrew Smolen, Eric A. Whitsel, Joyce Tabor, Ley A.
Killeya-Jones, Carmen Cuthbertson, Jon M. Hussey, Carolyn T. Halpern,
Kathleen Mullan Harris
12 pages
Psychometric Properties of the Mini-IPIP in a Large, Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults
by Ruth E. Baldasaro, Michael J. Shanahan, and Daniel J. Bauer
