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Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), 1991-2006

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Principal Investigator(s): Portes, Alejandro; Rumbaut, Rubén G.

Summary: Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) was designed to study the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation which is defined broadly as United States-born children with at least one foreign-born parent or children born abroad but brought at an early age to the United States. The original survey was conducted with large samples of second-generation immigrant children attending the 8th and 9th grades in public and private schools in the metropolitan areas of Miami/Ft. Lauderda... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20520.v2

Access Notes

  • This study was originally processed, archived, and disseminated by Data Sharing and Demographic Research, a project funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

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