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Last Updated: June 27, 2008
The Users' Guides provide extensive descriptions of AHAA measures, including how they were constructed and how they should be used and interpreted for analytic purposes. Standard conventions for naming the indicators, the missing codes applied to the indicators, the distributions of the indicators, and an inventory of data files are also included. In order to read or print the User's Guides you will need to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This shareware can be downloaded from Adobe.com.
For a brief summary of the released data, see the First Release page. We will post additional user's guides as they become available. All data is being released in multiple stages as a part of Add Health Wave III. Currently, there have been three releases of AHAA education data which are detailed below:
- May 2005 Release (First Release)
- January 2007 Release (Second Release)
- March 2007 Release (Third & Fourth Release)
- August 2007 Release (Fifth Release)
- January 2008 (Sixth Release)
Study Design
This document describes the design and implementation of the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study.
Education Data Released May 2005
Linking Indicators
Describes the linking indicators which help analysts link AHAA data to academic or course-taking years and to the Add Health surveys. Also see the Analytic Advice page for more information on how to use the linking indicators.
Education Data Codebook
Education Index: Education Data
Education Graduation Status Codebook
The Wave III Education Data Codebook describes the data constructed from the high school transcripts from the May 2005 release of AHAA education data. The Education Index file is a quick reference for the list of constructed education variables.
Education graduation status, coded directly from the transcripts, is provided in a separate file.
Education Data Released January 2007
Math, Science, and Overall
Foreign Language
English
History & Social Science
Physical Education
These five user's guides provide a general overview of all academic courses indicators and detailed information about the construction and distributions of all academic courses indicators.
Education Data Released March 2007
Academic Networks
The Academic Networks file contains information on the data files edunet.xpt, educov94.xpt, and educov95.xpt. These files provide detailed information about the construction and distributions of all academic network variables based on the respondents' course-taking patterns.
Contextual Data (Updated April 2007)
The Contextual Data user's guide is for the data files educcd1.xpt and edupss.xpt. Not all the variables from the Contextual Data component are currently released. The user's guide provides information about all variables in this component, whether they are currently released or are scheduled for a future release. The variables created from the Private School Survey have been released in full (except ECPRMISS, an indicator for the private school missing survey data; this will be released at a future date). As of March 2007, no variables from the U.S. Census Data have been released (they are scheduled for a future release). Approximately half of the indicators created from the Common Core Data are currently released. To see a list of the available CCD variables, go here.
Transitions
The Transitions User's guide is for the data file edutrans.xpt, which contains data explaining the respondents' movement through the educational system. Available measures include middle school students’ transitioning to high school and student transfers between Wave I and Wave II.
Primary Data (Updated April 2007)
This user's guide is for the file edustd1.xpt. Currently, only one variable is available from the primary data: the last school attended by the respondents. Additional releases of other primary indicators outlined in the User's Guide will be made at a future date.
Education Data Released August 2007
Student-Level Curriculum Data
The codebook for the individual-level math and science curriculum files, edutmaux.xpt, edutmsum.xpt,
edutsaux.xpt, and edutssum.xpt, is EduStCurriculum.pdf.
Education Data Released January 2008
Course-Level Curriculum Data
The codebook for the math and science course level curriculum files edutmcl.xpt and
edutscl.xpt is EduCoursCurr.pdf. The imputed math and science course level curriculum
codebook for files edutmcli.xpt and edutscli.xpt is EduCoursCurrImp.pdf. EduBasic.pdf contains codebook information for the file edubasic.xpt. Note this data is currently not linkable to individuals. See future release page for more information.
Additional Academic Courses Data: Physical Education, Math and Science Overall, and Foreign Language
Information on the additional variables for the Academic Courses data edupe2.xpt, edumsov2.xpt, and eduflng2.xpt has been appended to the originally released codebooks and the codebooks have been renamed to EduPhysEd.pdf, EduMathSciOverall.pdf, and EduForeignLang.pdf.
OCR & 1990 Census Contextual Data
The codebook for the contextual data file eduocr.xpt is called EduContextOCR.pdf and the codebook for the file educx90.xpt is EduContext90.pdf. The additional data released in educcd2.xpt is described in EduContext.pdf.
Primary Data - Updated Frequencies
Codebook information for primary files edusch.xpt and edustd2.xpt are in the codebook EduPrimary.pdf. The updated frequencies for the file edusif.xpt are also in the EduPrimary.pdf codebook.
Postsecondary Data
The post secondary data codebook for edupost.xpt is EduPost.pdf.