Summary
In an original study conducted in 1965, Leo Grebler, Joan Moore, and Ralph Guzman surveyed Mexican Americans in San Antonio, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. The first survey provided a rich cross-sectional view of this population's demographics and attitudes, Ortiz and Telles' 35 year follow-up now allows for a longitudinal view of the behavior and ethnic identification of first- through fourth-generation Mexican Americans in these areas. The new survey was used to test hypotheses related to Mexican Americans' social mobility, their ethnic identity and behavior, their experiences with discrimination, and the relationship between socioeconomic status and ethnic identity. Data includes birth dates, citizenship information, education, income, housing, language, medical, religious affiliations, immediate and extended family demographic information, and self perception in regards to ethnicity. There are four versions of the survey, "Child Respondents" in English and Spanish and "Informant Respondents" in English and Spanish. Additionally each survey includes an interviewer questionnaire, which asks interviewers to document their observations of the respondent's home (interior and exterior), cooperation, behavior, language proficiency, and gender.
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Funding
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD033436)
Russell Sage Foundation
Haynes Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Ford Foundation
California Policy Seminar
Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage
Smallest Geographic Unit
county
Study Purpose
The Mexican American Study Project is a study on intra- and inter-generational change and persistence in ethnic identity and behavior, as well as socio-economic mobility among Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, California, and San Antonio, Texas. This study sheds light on the progress of Mexican Americans, the progeny of the largest and longest-lasting immigration to the United States.
Sample
random
Universe
Two stages: (1) Mexican American adults in Los Angeles County, California, and the City of San Antonio, Texas, 1965-1966. (2) a. The surviving respondents of Stage 1 that were age 50 or less at the time of the 1965-1966 survey, in 1998-2002. (2) b. The children that had lived in their household at the time of the 1965-1966 survey, in 1998-2002.
Unit(s) of Observation
individual
household
survey data
Mode of Data Collection
face-to-face interview
paper and pencil interview (PAPI)
on-site questionnaire
Original Release Date
2011-03-15
Version Date
2011-03-29
Version History
2011-03-29 (1) The title of this study has been changed to The Mexican American Study Project II (MASP II). (2) The time period has been changed to 1998-2000.
2011-03-15 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.
Notes
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
This study is provided by Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD).