Mexican Origin People in the United States: National Ethnic Screening Survey, 1978 (ICPSR 7920)

Principal Investigator(s): Arce, Carlos H.

Summary: This study was conducted by the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research under the direction of Carlos H. Arce for the purpose of identifying people of Mexican descent for the larger and more comprehensive Chicano Survey. A questionnaire was administered to 10,574 respondents from January to October of 1979 in the five Southwestern states: California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, and the standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) of Chicago, Illinois, and Okl... (more info)

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Arce, Carlos H. Mexican Origin People in the United States: National Ethnic Screening Survey, 1978. ICPSR07920-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1982. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07920.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07920.v1

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health

Summary:   This study was conducted by the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research under the direction of Carlos H. Arce for the purpose of identifying people of Mexican descent for the larger and more comprehensive Chicano Survey. A questionnaire was administered to 10,574 respondents from January to October of 1979 in the five Southwestern states: California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, and the standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) of Chicago, Illinois, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Information about ancestral origins, and observations about the respondents, their homes, and their neighborhoods are all included. The survey identified 1,377 households with persons of Mexican descent who were then eligible for interviewing for the Chicano Survey. This collection was made available to ICPSR by the National Chicano Research Network, which was located at the Survey Research Center of the Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan.

Subject Terms:   ethnic identity, ethnicity, family history, Hispanic or Latino Americans, immigrants, Mexican Americans, national identity, neighborhoods

Geographic Coverage:   Arizona, California, Chicago, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Texas, United States

Time Period:  

• 1978

Date of Collection:  

• 1979-01--1979-10

Universe:   Persons from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and the standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) of Chicago, Illinois, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Data Types:   survey data

Data Collection Notes:

The frequencies and data collection instruments are provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Sample:   Stratified, multistage, area probability sample.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-03-18

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