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