Add Health Sample Member Birth Records Database User Guide

The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994- 95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently in 2016-18. Data collection for Wave VI is currently in progress. See Harris et al. (2019) for more information about the study. The Add Health Sample Member Birth Records Database provides data from the birth records of a subset (N = 2,750) of Add Health sample members (AHSMs). The AHSMs were born between 1974 and 1983. The Birth Records Database is composed of AHSMs who consented to Add Health’s use of their birth record data and who were born in states that have agreed to make birth record data available to Add Health.