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Findings Available
Interim Descriptive/Analytical Findings
Findings
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10/01/02:
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: In Our Backyard: How 3 L.A. Neighborhoods Affect Kids' Lives
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Interim Descriptive/Analytical Findings:
Low family income and a high level of family conflict are both related to higher levels of problem behaviors for children.
Regardless of family characteristics, living in a particular neighborhood has an effect on a child’s behavior.
Results show that the effects of family characteristics themselves differ by neighborhood.
Parents who report that their neighborhood is very safe or fairly safe are more likely to perceive their children to be in good health.
Differences in family income among the three neighborhoods appear to account for all of the differences in children’s school performance.
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09/01/03:
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study (LAFANS): Los Angeles County Young Children's Literacy Experiences, Emotional Well-Being and Skills Acquisition: Results from the Los Angeles Family and Nei
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- Children living in the poorest neighborhoods have the lowest levels of school readiness on multiple dimensions. Despite efforts of their parents, many of these children have more limited access to books and adults who read to them, are more likely to have mothers with lower literacy levels, have somewhat more behavior problems, and lower language and math scores than other children.
- Within poorer neighborhoods, the most disadvantaged children are likely to be those whose mothers did not go beyond high school and have poorer reading skills themselves.
- On some measures, girls and immigrant children, and Latino children are also less ready for school.
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04/01/03:
Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Neighborhood and Family Effects on Children's Health in Los Angeles
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- Despite the emphasis in the social epidemiology literature on the effects of poor
neighborhoods on health, our results show that neighborhood effects on health outcomes
are generally small once measured and unmeasured family characteristics are taken into
account.
- The concentration of immigrants in a neighborhood is associated with higher rates of
overweight and obesity among adolescents.
- As many previous studies have shown, ethnicity is an important determinant for many of
the health outcomes we investigated.
- Immigrant status is also an important factor for many of the health outcomes examined.
- The results for overweight indicate that maternal BMI is, not surprisingly, a very
important determinant of children’s weight status.
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