The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS) is a 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 fielded between 2000 and 2001. Fieldwork for Wave 2 of L.A.FANS was conducted between 2006 and 2008. We offer Public Use Data and four versions of Restricted Data. See the comparison table to decide which version is right for you.
We have available the questionnaire instruments for L.A.FANS Wave 1 and Wave 2.
Also available are L.A.FANS documentation reports and publications.
Contact us with any questions or for more information about L.A.FANS.
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L.A.FANS Publications
The following are recent publications based on L.A.FANS.
Do Perceptions of Social Cohesion, Social Support, and Social Control Mediate the Effects of Local Community Participation on Neighborhood Satisfaction? — 2011
Dassopoulos, A., and S.M. Monnat
Environment and Behavior , Volume: 43, Issue: 4, Pages: 546-565
Read the Paper from eab.sagepub.com
The neighborhood context of relative position, trust, and self-rated health — 2011
Bjornstrom Eileen E.
Social Science & Medicine , Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 42-49. Epub 2011 May 27.
Read the Paper from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Multiple Dimensions of Immigrant Acculturation and Obesity among Mexican-Americans — 2011
Creighton, Mathew J., and Anne Pebley
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, April 2011
Read the Paper from princeton.edu
The Shape of Things to Come: Obesity Prevalence among Foreign-Born vs. U.S.-Born Hispanic Children in California — 2011
Buttenheim, Alison M., Anne Pebley, Katie Hsih, and Noreen Goldman
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, April 2011
Read the Paper from princeton.edu
Patterns of Biomarker Participation for Children in Wave 2 of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey — 2011
Sastry, Narayan, and Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, April 2011
Read the Paper from princeton.edu
A Census Data Based Simulation Experiment on the Effects of Modeling Neighborhood Effects on a Health Outcome at “the Wrong” Scale of the Census Geography — 2011
Nau, Claudia L.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC, April 2011
Read the Paper from princeton.edu
Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Residential Preferences and Residential Mobility — 2011
Bruch, Elizabeth E., and Robert D. Mare
Research Report 11-725, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
Eyes on the Block: Measuring Urban Physical Disorder Through In-Person Observation — 2011
Jones, Malia, Anne R. Pebley, and Narayan Sastry
Social Science Research, Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 523-537
Read the Full Document at sciencedirect.com
“Does Latino Population Induce White Flight? Evidence from Los Angeles County” — 2011
Pan, Ying
Working Paper, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University
Read the Paper from bus.lsu.edu
Neighborhood Protective Effects on Depression in Latinos — 2011
Vega, William A., Alfonso Ang, Michael A. Rodriguez, and Brian K. Finch
American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 47, Issues 1-2, Pages 114-126
Read the Full Document at springerlink.com
To Live and Die in L.A. County: Neighborhood Economic and Social Context and Premature Age-Specific Mortality Rates among Latinos — 2011
Bjornstrom, Eileen
Health & Place, Volume 17, Number 1, Pages 230–237
Read the Full Document at sciencedirect.com
The Automobile, Immigrants, and Poverty: Implications for Immigrant Earnings and Job Access — 2010
Clark, William A.V., and Wenfei Winnie Wang
Urban Geography, Volume 31, Number 4, Pages 523–540
Read the Abstract at bellwether.metapress.com
Association of Perceived Neighborhood Safety on Body Mass Index — 2010
Fish, Jason S., Susan Ettner, Alfonso Ang, and Arleen F. Brown
American Journal of Public Health Volume 100, Number 11, Pages 2296–2303
Read the Abstract at paa2003.princeton.edu
A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Context and Risky Behavior among Adolescents in Los Angeles and Chicago — 2010
Frank, Reanne, and Eileen Bjornstrom
Health & Place Volume 17, Number 1, Pages 67–77
Read the Full Document at sciencedirect.com
Schooling Location and Economic, Occupational and Cognitive Success among Immigrants and Their Children: The Case of Los Angeles — 2010
Jackson, Margot I., Anne R. Pebley and Noreen Goldman
Social Science Research, Volume 39, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 432-443
Read the Abstract at sciencedirect.com
Influence of Neighbourhood Collective Efficacy on Adolescent Sexual Behaviour: Variation by Gender and Activity Participation — 2010
Kim, Jinsook
Child: Care, Health and Development, Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 646-654
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