L.A.FANS Public Use Data
L.A.FANS-1 Public Use Data
The Public Use Data contain treated individual characteristics. This means that some data are top-coded (e.g. income) or coded in broader categories (e.g. ethnicity), as described in the L.A.FANS-1 codebook. The Public Use Data exclude detailed information that is likely to enable indirect identification of L.A.FANS respondents. Some items listed in the questionnaires, such as employer names and addresses, will not be included in any version of the data. See the L.A.FANS-1 codebook for information about individual variables.
Data collection for L.A.FANS-1 began in April 2000 and ended in mid-January 2002. The L.A.FANS-1 Public Use Data are available from this website (see the registration link below).
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) also distributes the L.A.FANS 1 Public Use Data. Please see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/DSDR/STUDY/22940.xml for details on how to register for data access at ICPSR. Note that ICPSR does not currently distribute L.A.FANS-2 data.
For those who have previously obtained L.A.FANS-1 data from ICPSR or who plan to do so currently, please be aware that the data file names used in the RAND L.A.FANS-1 documentation are not used by ICPSR. A crosswalk between the filenames used by RAND versus those used by ICPSR is available for your convenience.
L.A.FANS-2 Public Use Data
The final version of the L.A.FANS-2 Public Use Data is available through this website. Individual characteristics in the L.A.FANS Public Use Data are "treated" to prevent indirect identification of respondents; please see the L.A.FANS-2 User's Guide and Codebook for information. Unlike in Wave 1, descriptions of individual variables in each L.A.FANS-2 Public Use Data file are found in separate codebook text files that accompany each data file.
Obtaining L.A.FANS Public Use Data
Researchers using the Public Use Data agree not to distribute the data to other persons outside of their project. Others who are interested in obtaining a copy of the Public Use Data should register and obtain their own copy.
Data librarians and archivists must meet specific conditions to include the public use data in their collections.
In registering for L.A.FANS Public Use Data at RAND, users will have access to both the Wave 1 and Wave 2 Public Use Data. Users do not need to register separately for each wave. Public Use Data users who have already registered for L.A.FANS-1 can use their original passcodes to access L.A.FANS-2.
Read the Use Agreement and Register for the L.A.FANS Public Use Data Files
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