CSaWS dataset and supplemental materials

CSaWS dataset and supplemental materials

California Safety and Wellbeing Survey (CSaWS), 2018

  • by Kravitz-Wirtz N, Aubel A, & Wintemute G

Quick Summary

  • CSaWS 2018 dataset and supplemental materials are available on openICPSR.

Dataset

The 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey (CSaWS) is publicly available to facilitate additional scientific research and informed decision-making about strategies for preventing violence and improving safety and health equity outcomes. The dataset and supplemental materials are located in the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention (IFIP) Data Repository on openICPSR. Access the dataset here.

AVAILABLE CONTENT

  • User guide
  • Survey instrument in English and Spanish and flow charts
  • Public dataset, constructed variables, and codebook

About CSaWS

The California Safety and Wellbeing Survey (CSaWS) is an all-online, repeated cross-sectional statewide survey research project developed by researchers with the California Firearm Violence Research Center at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Centers for Violence Prevention, with funding from the State of California. CSaWS provides detailed and timely data on a wide range of topics related to firearm ownership, exposure to violence and its consequences, and public opinion on selected injury and violence prevention practices and policies. More than 2,500 California adults participated in the first wave of CSaWS in 2018 (CSaWS 2018) and their responses can be weighted to be statistically representative of the adult population of the state.

Related Publications

The following publications have used data from CSaWS 2018:

  • Aubel, Amanda J., Garen J. Wintemute, Aaron B. Shev, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “Optimism Bias Among Gun Owners: Associations With Firearm Injury Prevention Practices and Policy Support.” Health Education & Behavior, July 30, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981241267212.
  • Aubel, Amanda J., Garen J. Wintemute, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “Optimism Bias in Firearm-Related Risk Perceptions.” JAMA Network Open 6, no. 12 (December 28, 2023): e2349656. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.49656.
  • Aubel, Amanda J., Rocco Pallin, Garen J. Wintemute, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “Exposure to Violence, Firearm Involvement, and Socioemotional Consequences Among California Adults.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, December 31, 2020, 088626052098392. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520983924.
  • Kravitz-Wirtz, Nicole, Rocco Pallin, Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, and Garen J Wintemute. “Firearm Ownership and Acquisition in California: Findings from the 2018 California Safety and Well-Being Survey.” Injury Prevention 26, no. 6 (December 2020): 516–23. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043372.
  • Kravitz-Wirtz, Nicole, Rocco Pallin, Rose M.C. Kagawa, Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, and Garen J. Wintemute. “Firearm Purchases without Background Checks in California.” Preventive Medicine 145 (April 2021): 106414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106414.
  • Pallin, Rocco, Amanda Charbonneau, Garen J. Wintemute, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “California Public Opinion On Health Professionals Talking With Patients About Firearms.” Health Affairs 38, no. 10 (October 1, 2019): 1744–51. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00602.
  • Pallin, Rocco, Amanda Charbonneau, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, and Garen J. Wintemute. “Public Opinion on Firearm Injury Prevention Proposals in California.” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 1 (January 8, 2020): e1918786. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.18786.
  • Pallin, Rocco, Garen J. Wintemute, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “Firearm Practices, Perceptions of Safety, and Opinions on Injury Prevention Strategies Among California Adults With vs Without Children.” JAMA Network Open 4, no. 8 (August 3, 2021): e2119146. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19146.
  • Pallin, Rocco, Garen J. Wintemute, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “‘What Does It Depend on?’: Perceptions of Safety Related to Firearms in Homes and Neighborhoods.” PLOS ONE 16, no. 12 (December 29, 2021): e0261038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261038.
  • Schleimer, Julia P, Garen J Wintemute, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “Firearm Ownership and Perceived Risk of Personal Firearm Injury.” Injury Prevention 27, no. 3 (June 2021): 277–79. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2020-043869.
  • Schleimer, Julia P, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Rocco Pallin, Amanda K Charbonneau, Shani A Buggs, and Garen J Wintemute. “Firearm Ownership in California: A Latent Class Analysis.” Injury Prevention 26, no. 5 (October 2020): 456–62. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043412.
  • Schleimer, Julia P., Rocco Pallin, Garen J. Wintemute, Amanda Charbonneau, and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz. “Patterns of Firearm Ownership and Opinions on Firearm Policies Among Adults in California.” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 7 (July 31, 2020): e2012096. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12096.
  • Tomsich, Elizabeth A., Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Rocco Pallin, and Garen J. Wintemute. “Firearm Ownership Among LGBT Adults in California.” Violence and Gender 7, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 102–8. https://doi.org/10.1089/vio.2020.0024.

Citation

Kravitz-Wirtz, Nicole, Aubel, Amanda, and Wintemute, Garen. California Safety and Wellbeing Survey, 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-03-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/E153263V1

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Violence in California

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