Measurements and Methods
One of the most important components in pushing forward the boundaries of population and aging research is the incorporation of new measures of health and well-being into surveys of individuals and households. Bringing biology into longitudinal social surveys has changed the population sciences. Many of these methods were pioneered by faculty at CPC, and our faculty continue to test and field innovative new approaches to data collection in the US and abroad.
Associated Current and Recently Completed Projects
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
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…
Add Health Cognition and Early Risk Factors for Dementia Project
The overall goal of this project is to collect and disseminate critical data on cognitive, physical, and sensory functioning and risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) in Wave VI of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), when participants…
Add Health GWAS Data: User Support and Research Tools to Enable Widespread Access
This project is developing tools to enable widespread access to and use of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data among respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The intent is to make Add Health GWAS data more easily accessible, straightforward…
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
Cebu was originally designed as a study of infant feeding patterns and how feeding decisions within a household interact with various social, economic, and environmental factors to affect health, nutritional, demographic, and economic outcomes. The study later expanded to include outcomes such as birth weight…
China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) is an NIH-funded study of more than 41,000 households followed for over 35 years, capturing dramatic and rapid modernization- and environment-related changes in individual, household and community environments. The CHNS offers high quality, unique and extraordinary, intergenerational data…
