Using the Data
Public-use and contractual data offer endless options in the types of analysis, choices of data, and presentation. Users of the Add Health data have found that managing such large, complex datasets can be challenging, involving complicated skip patterns, multiple response categories and choices, inter-questionnaire ID matching, and other advanced data structures. As a service to the research community, Add Health offers the following resources on this Web site:
- user guides to explain weighting and biomarkers and to help with understanding and analyzing Add Health data
- program codes written in SAS and tested


