DOI: 10.3886/icpsr24502.v1
title: Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England, 2006
title: Version 1

description: The Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England is the New England extension of the LATINO NATIONAL SURVEY (LNS), 2006 (ICPSR 20862), which was conducted in 2005-2006. The Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England contains 1,200 completed interviews (unweighted) of self-identified Latino/Hispanic residents of the United States. The questionnaire is the same as that used in the original LNS. Interviewing began on November 17, 2005, and continued through August 4, 2006. The survey instrument contained approximately 165 distinct items ranging from demographic descriptions to political attitudes and policy preferences, as well as a variety of social indicators and experiences. All interviewers were bilingual, English and Spanish. Respondents were greeted in both languages and were immediately offered the opportunity to interview in either language. Interviewers also provided a consent script that allowed respondents to opt out of the survey. Demographic variables include age, ancestry, birthplace, education level, ethnicity, marital status, military service, number of people in the household, number of children under the age of 18 living in the household, political party affiliation, political ideology, religiosity, religious preference, race, and sex.
description: There are four weight variables in these data. Use of the correct weight depends on your analysis purpose. The variables are: WT_METRO, WT_STATE, WT_NATIO, and WT_NATIO_CALIB. The variable WT_NATIO_CALIB is a means-adjusted weight for doing national analysis. wt_metro: Metro-level weight wt_state: State-level weight wt_natio_calib: Nation-level weight (calibrated to mean of 1 by dividing through by mean of New-England only sample) wt_natio: Nation-level weight (original weight, as provided for entire LNS sample of New England and 18 other states)
description: 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.; Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Public Use Version 
 DS2: Restricted Use Version
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), telephone interview 
 In addition to ICPSR Study 20862: LATINO NATIONAL SURVEY (LNS), 2006, this study is also related to ICPSR study 6841: LATINO NATIONAL POLITICAL SURVEY, 1989-1990. While these studies do not constitute a formal series, they are related by topic and principal investigator. 
Much of the metadata for this study was pulled from the Latino National Survey (LNS), 2006 [ICPSR 20862].
description: The universe of analysis contains the Hispanic population of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
description: The sample was stratified by geographic designation, meaning that each state sample was a valid, stand-alone representation of that state's Latino population. State sample sizes varied based in part on funders' recommendations, but all national figures reported were appropriately weighted such that the numbers were accurately representative of the universe covered by the study. The national margin of error was approximately plus or minus 1.05 percent. The smallest sample size for any unit was 400, yielding a margin of error of less than plus or minus 5 percent for each state. A number of states were stratified internally. All state-level results were computed using state-level weights such that they remained representative of the state population.