About Public-Use Data
Waves I and II
The public-use dataset for Waves I and II contains information
collected in 1994–96 from Add Health’s nationally
representative sample of adolescents. This dataset includes Wave I and
II respondents and consists of one-half of the core sample, chosen at
random, and one-half of the oversample of African-American adolescents
with a parent who has a college degree. The total number of respondents
in this dataset is approximately 6,500.
The Waves I and II public-use dataset includes information from each of the following sources (as available):
- In-School Questionnaire
- Wave I In-Home Interview
- Add Health Picture Vocabulary Test (AHPVT), an abbreviated version
of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised, with
age-standardized scores for adolescent respondents
- Wave I Parent Questionnaire
- Wave II In-Home Interview
- contextual data
- in-school network data
Wave III
The Wave III public-use data are helpful in analyzing the transition
between adolescence and young adulthood. A total of 4,882 of the
original Wave I respondents were re-interviewed between August 2001 and
April 2002. Wave III respondents were between 18 and 26 years old.
The Wave III dataset includes eight data files:
- Main Respondent File: 1859 variables, including the In-Home
Questionnaire data, grand sampling weights, AHPVT scores, and
biospecimen data for 4,882 respondents
- Relationship Table File: 19 variables and 13,998 relationship records
- Pregnancy Table File: 7 variables and 2,348 pregnancy records
- Relationship Detail File: 209 variables and detailed information on 12,680 relationships
- Completed Pregnancies File: 39 variables and information on 2,163 completed pregnancies
- Current Pregnancies File: 39 variables and information on 180 current pregnancies
- Live Births File: 20 variables and information about 1,357 live births
- Children and Parenting File: 74 variables and detailed information about 1,323 children
- Education Data
Getting Public-Use Data
Public-use data are distributed by Sociometrics on CD-ROM in ASCII
format. This data is preloaded with a search-and-retrieval system that
can be used by several standard statistical packages.
For more information or to obtain the public-use data, contact:
Sociometrics Corporation
170 State Street, Suite 260
Los Altos, California 94022-2812
telephone: 650-949-3282
fax: 650-949-3299
socio@socio.com
Read about the data at Sociometrics web site.
Waves I, II, and III
Waves I and II only
Wave III only
Education Data
Please do not contact the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the public-use data.
Limited online analysis
Limited analysis can be performed online on selected variables from the Add Health public-use data. See Online Analysis for more information.