In recent years, the interaction of neighborhood characteristics and children's well-being has become a topic of considerable debate both in the academic and public policy communities. Research to date has been seriously hampered by a lack of data adequate to address the complex set of associations between neighborhood characteristics, family life, family choices about geographic mobility and children's well-being. We propose to carry out the Los Angeles Study of Families and Communities (LASFC), a longitudinal survey of children, their families, and their neighborhoods in 65 neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, over a four year period. Poor neighborhoods and households with children will be oversampled. The LASFC will collect extensive information on family social and economic status and background, labor force participation, family dynamics and parenting, social ties, geographic mobility, neighborhood attitudes and involvement, and family use of publicly-and privately-funded child-related services. A unique feature of the LASFC is that we propose both to follow households which move out of sampled neighborhoods and to interview a new sample of households which have moved into the neighborhood in the year preceding each wave of the survey. The LASFC data will be placed into the public domain after each annual wave as quickly as possible, to enable a wide range of investigators to carry out research.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
3R01HD035944-01A1S1
Application #
2877959
Study Section
Social Sciences and Population Study Section (SSP)
Program Officer
Evans, V Jeffery
Project Start
1998-09-18
Project End
2003-11-30
Budget Start
1998-09-18
Budget End
1999-11-30
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Rand Corporation
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Santa Monica
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90401
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Chi, Donald L; Carpiano, Richard M (2013) Neighborhood social capital, neighborhood attachment, and dental care use for Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey adults. Am J Public Health 103:e88-95
Carpiano, Richard M; Kimbro, Rachel T (2012) Neighborhood social capital, parenting strain, and personal mastery among female primary caregivers of children. J Health Soc Behav 53:232-47
Creighton, Mathew J; Goldman, Noreen; Pebley, Anne R et al. (2012) Durational and generational differences in Mexican immigrant obesity: is acculturation the explanation? Soc Sci Med 75:300-10
Jones, Malia; Pebley, Anne R; Sastry, Narayan (2011) Eyes on the Block: Measuring Urban Physical Disorder Through In-Person Observation. Soc Sci Res 40:523-537
Bjornstrom, Eileen E S (2011) The neighborhood context of relative position, trust, and self-rated health. Soc Sci Med 73:42-9

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