California Local Option Sales Taxes for Transportation Data

Our researchers at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies compiled a dataset with information on 76 California Local Option Sales Taxes for Transportation (LOSTs) put before California voters between 1976 – 2016. These data are divided into four subject categories; administrative, temporal, finance and voter support, and modal distributions. For some measures data are incomplete across all fields. These are not errors of omission, but rather owing to failed data collection attempts. The research team assembled these data as a part of a collaborative project funded by the University of California Center for Economic Competitiveness (UCCONNECT) and the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies. The full report produced by these efforts can be found here.   

Using these data? Questions? Comments? Modifications needed? We want to hear from you. Please send an email to us at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.  

California LOST Data Citation 

Publications and research reports using the UCLA ITS data on California Local Option Sales Taxes must cite it appropriately. Please include the following information: 

Jaimee Lederman, Anne Brown, Maxwell Albrecht, Brian D. Taylor, and Martin Wachs. (2017). California Local Option Sales Taxes Data, 1976-2016. UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. https://www.its.ucla.edu/LOSTdata

Download the complete spreadsheet here. 

Data Fields and Sources