23 Jun If you were to use data from the ADD Health dataset, what type of existing data design would the ADD Health dataset be?
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Existing Data Research Designs Go to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (ADD Health) dataset: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth
Read about this longitudinal study (You do NOT have to read the full study – which is about 800 pages! Just read the brief description of the study- READ THE ONE PARAGRAPH- on the linked webpage)
Q1.If you were to use data from the ADD Health dataset, what type of existing data design would the ADD Health dataset be?
Q2.What are the advantages and disadvantages of this conducting research with this and other existing data sets?
Review the variables that are available for public use in this dataset
Q3.What variables would you be interested in examining?
Q4.What does it mean that some variables are “restricted-use”?
Be sure to support your discussion with scholarly sources.
Harris, K. M., & Udry, J. R. (2018). National longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health (add health), 1994-2008 [Public Use]. Ann Arbor, MI: Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill [distributor], Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 08-06.
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