User Guides
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.
References, Instruments, and Questionnaires Consulted in the Development of the Add Health In-home
Adolescent Interview
by J. Richard Udry
7 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
by Kim Chantala, William D. Kalsbeek, and Eugenio Andraca
17 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


