The Add Health Study: Design and Accomplishments

This document was prepared to be used by those interested in a ready reference for the design features and accomplishments of Add Health (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health). It provides a summary of features incorporated in the first fifteen years of completed work on the Add Health Study. The reader is referred to our web site (www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth) for additional information, and for availability of data. Parts of this document may be incorporated into other documents for grant applications, papers for publication, or public presentations, without further permission. This document will be useful for those planning to use existing Add Health data. *Kathleen Mullan Harris, PhD, is Principal Investigator and Director of Add Health (kathie_harris@unc.edu). Address correspondence to Add Health, Carolina Population Center, CB# 8120, University Square, 123 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516. Add Health is a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design.