Data from Wave I of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
(Add Health) is now available to researchers. A public-use dataset
containing a nationally-representative sample of 6500 adolescents
enrolled in grades 7-12 during the 1994-1995 school year is available
from Sociometrics (email: socio@socio.com; phone: 650-949-3282). This
dataset also contains an oversample of African-American adolescents
living with a parent with a college degree. A restricted-use dataset is
also available by contract with CPC. The restricted-use dataset contains
over 20,000 observations including a core, nationally-representative
sample of 12,000 adolescents; oversamples of adolescents with Cuban,
Chinese, and Puerto Rican backgrounds; a sample of adolescents with
physical, limb disabilities; and a sample of pairs of adolescents
residing together of varying degrees of genetic relatedness, from
identical twins to adolescents sharing neither biological parent. Wave
II data is scheduled for release winter 1997-1998. For a complete
description of the study with information on how to order both the
public-use or the contractual datasets, visit the Add Health website:
www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth. You may also contact Jo Jones, Add Health
Project Manager, at email: jo_jones@unc.edu or phone: 919-682-8412.