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Acculturation: A Data-Driven Learning Guide
Dataset
Detroit Arab American Study, 2003
The Detroit Arab American Study, 2003 is a companion survey to the Detroit Area Study (DAS). It uses a representative sample of the Detroit metropolitan area, as well as an oversample of self-identified Arab and Chaldean Americans, and provides information on demographic characteristics, along with questions on respondents' country of birth, citizenship status, language spoken at home, religiosity, social trust, confidence in institutions, intercultural relationships, and attachment to transnational communities.
This exercise will use the following variables:
- Year came to the US (E2A)
- Language spoken at home (E9)
- Watch newscasts in Arabic (B2C)
- How important to visit country of ancestry frequently (D19E)
- How well speaks English (E11)
- How proud to be American (F4)
- Feel at home in America (H9)
- How important to speak Arabic (D19A)
- How important to marry somebody of Arab background (D19B)
- Registered to vote (C4)
- Trust in the government in Washington, DC (C30)
CITATION: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Acculturation: A Data-Driven Learning Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-16. doi:10.3886/acculturation
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