The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) is a new longitudinal study of families in Los Angeles County, California, and of the neighborhoods in which they live.
Research suggests that safe, supportive neighborhoods are important for children, teens, and adults. But what makes a neighborhood a positive place to live? We are trying to answer this question by comparing the lives of children and adults in a broad range of neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County.
The L.A.FANS focuses on:
- Neighborhood, family, and peer effects on children's development
- Effects of welfare reform at the neighborhood level
- Residential mobility and neighborhood change
The first Wave of the L.A.FANS was released in 2003. We offer Public Use Data and four versions of Restricted Data. See the comparison table to decide which version is right for you.
L.A.FANS-2 fieldwork is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. We anticipate L.A.FANS-2 public use data will be released in summer 2009. The release will take place through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. We are currently working to transform the CAPI questionnaires into a format which is accessible to users and we will post these questionnaires as soon as possible. Additional updates will be posted on this Web site, lasurvey.rand.org.
L.A.FANS Publications
The following are reports of our findings from L.A.FANS-1.
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