ADDHealth_Adolescents_Wave1
Population
Add Health - Adolescents
The participants were all adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States in 1994-1995.
Data Collection Event
Add Health - Adolescents - Wave I
In-school self-administered questionnaire and interviewer-assisted + self-administered in-home questionnaire. The in-school questionnaire was self-administered and included topics such as: social and demographic characteristics, education and occupation of parents, household structure, risk behaviors, expectations for the future, self-esteem, health status, friendships and school-year extracurricular activities.
The in-home interview covered the following topics: health status, health-facility utilization, nutrition, peer networks, decision-making processes, family composition and dynamics, educational aspirations and expectations, employment experience, the ordering of events in the formation of romantic partnerships, sexual partnerships, substance use and criminal activities.
At the beginning of the interview, respondents were given the Add Health Picture Vocabulary Test.
Interviewers used hand-held Global Positioning System devices to collect latitude and longitude readings for each household lacking a geocodable street address.