DOI: 10.3886/icpsr34385.v1
title: Latino MSM Community Involvement: HIV Protective Effects
title: Version 1

description: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the conceptual understanding and practical application of social integration theory to health behaviors. The research aimed to investigate the protective effects of community involvement in HIV/AIDS and gay-related organizations for HIV/AIDS sexual risk behavior among Latino gay or bisexual men and transgender individuals in Chicago and San Francisco. As part of this, the study examined HIV prevalence and the socioeconomic correlates of HIV infection, sexual risk behaviors, and substance use. Further, the study tested whether community involvement in AIDS and LGBT organizations moderated the relationship of racial and homosexual stigma to sexual risk behavior. Data were collected from a sample of 643 individuals (Chicago: n=320; San Francisco: n=323) through respondent-driven sampling and computer-assisted self-administered interviews. Demographic variables included ethnic identification, sexual identification, ZIP code (only available in restricted use data), country of birth, years in the United States, employment status, income, family religion, age, and health/STD status.
description: The purpose of this research was to collect information about Latino gay or bisexual men's, or transgender persons', experiences in their communities, community organizations, sexual behaviors, and substance use. This information will increase the understanding of Latino gay or bisexual men's, or transgender persons' lives, and may help develop effective HIV prevention programs for this community.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks.; Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Standardized missing values.; Created online analysis version with question text.; Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Public Use Data 
 DS2: Restricted Use Data 
 DS3: Restricted Use Supplemental Volunteer Data 
 DS4: Restricted Use Coupon Code Data
description: computer-assisted self interview (CASI) 
Part 3 (Supplemental Volunteer Data) was created by ICPSR as a restricted subset of the original data and includes the names of the various organizations where respondents have engaged in volunteer activities. Due to the high level of indirect identifiers in both the variables and the responses this data is only available for download after successfully completing a Restricted Data Use Agreement.
Part 3 (Supplemental Volunteer Data) can be merged with the public or restricted use data sets (parts 1 and 2 respectively) using the CASEID variable.
description: Latino gay or bisexual men and transgender individuals in Chicago and San Francisco Smallest Geographic Unit: state
description: Respondent-driven sampling, RDS