The Mexican American Study Project II (MASP II), 1998-2000 (ICPSR 28481)

Version Date: Mar 29, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
Vilma Ortiz, University of California-Los Angeles; Edward E. Telles, Princeton University

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28481.v2

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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.

Citation

Ortiz, Vilma, and Telles, Edward E. The Mexican American Study Project II (MASP II), 1998-2000. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28481.v2

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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

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2000 (1998--2000)

Date of Collection

2000 (1998--2002)
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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

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2011-03-15

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • Ortiz, Vilma, and Edward E. Telles. The Mexican American Study Project II (MASP II), 1998-2000. ICPSR28481-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-29. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR28481.v2

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.

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