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Public Use Data

Use Agreement for Public Use Data Files from The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Thank you for your interest in the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS). You will need to complete a registration form in order to access the Public Use data files from our server.

Please note that the Public Use Data and documentation are provided as a public service to the research community. However, despite our best efforts, the public use files and data documentation provided on this website may contain errors. As with other data sets, researchers should proceed with caution and conduct their own data quality evaluations whenever possible.

We ask you to register for two reasons. First, summary information on L.A.FANS users helps us to demonstrate to agencies funding L.A.FANS that the data are useful to a broad range of researchers. This information helps us to in our efforts to seek funding for future waves of L.A.FANS. Second, when possible, we will make an effort to notify registered data users of problems encountered or new data available.

To obtain access to the Public Use Data, the User agrees to the following conditions:

• You will make no attempt whatsoever to determine the identity of participants in the L.A.FANS study or of the specific neighborhoods, census tract, blocks, block groups, or streets in which study participants live.
• You will use the data in the L.A.FANS data sets only for scientific research and aggregate statistical reporting.
• You will not transfer the L.A.FANS Public Use Data or derived files to anyone else other than staff members and students working directly under your supervision. There is an exception to this condition for data libraries and archives. You will ask your co-investigators to register separately for data use.
• You agree to destroy any downloaded Public Use Data files and any derived data files if requested to do so by RAND.
• You agree to send us (lafans@rand.org) the citations for any papers, articles, books, working papers, presentations at professional meetings or conferences, or other publications based on the L.A.FANS data. We also ask that you send us copies of these publications. Electronic copies are preferred, though hard copies are accepted (contact us at lafans@rand.org for our mailing address).
• You will acknowledge L.A.FANS as the source of data for analysis in all reports and publications based on these data. The acknowledgement should substantially follow the form below: "This research is based on data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey which is funded by a grant R01 HD35944 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to RAND in Santa Monica, California. For further information on L.A.FANS, go to lasurvey.rand.org."
• If the identity of any individual, household, school or community is discovered inadvertently by you or by someone working with you, then you agree to the following:
  1. No use will be made of this knowledge;
  2. RAND will be advised of the incident immediately at lafans@rand.org;
  3. You will destroy or safeguard the information that would identify an individual as requested by RAND; and
  4. You will not inform anyone else of the discovered identity or methods you used to discover this identity.
• Report any errors in the data and documentation files to L.A.FANS at lafans@rand.org.
• You agree to insure that anyone working with the data you downloaded follows these rules in their use of the data.

Click here for L.A.FANS Registration Form