DOI: 10.3886/icpsr29601.v1
title: Latino National Survey (LNS) Focus Group Data, 2006
title: Version 1

description: The focus groups conducted by the research team for the project presented here offer precisely this convergence of both breadth and depth. The team used a common protocol to guide discussion in fifteen focus groups -- with more than 150 participants in nine cities across eight states -- that were designed to include Spanish and English-speaking respondents, in different regions of the country, with differing compositions by generation and country of origin. The number and range of the participants in these Latino focus groups are unique in the social science literature. This study presents the results of a unique data set, the results of fifteen focus groups conducted across the United States with Latino residents, including foreign-born -- both legal and undocumented immigrants and native-born. These data provide more range than allowed by the typical interview-based project and not only give key insights into Latino residents' thoughts about community, language, discrimination, ties to their countries of origin, and the like, but also provide some sense of participants' explanations of their reasoning and motivations, something not achievable through structured survey data alone.
description: Not applicable.
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..
description: Response Rates: Not applicable.
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Focus Group 1 Data: Houston, Texas-English 
 DS2: Focus Group 2 Data: Houston, Texas-Spanish 
 DS3: Focus Group 3 Data: Los Angeles, California-English 
 DS4: Focus Group 4 Data: Los Angeles, California-Spanish 
 DS5: Focus Group 5 Data: Dalton, Georgia-Spanish 
 DS6: Focus Group 6 Data: New York, New York-English 
 DS7: Focus Group 7 Data: New York, New York-English 
 DS8: Focus Group 8 Data: Miami, Florida-Spanish 
 DS9: Focus Group 9 Data: Miami, Florida-English 
 DS10: Focus Group 10 Data: Muscatine, Iowa-English 
 DS11: Focus Group 11 Data: West Liberty, Iowa-Spanish 
 DS12: Focus Group 12 Data: Washington D.C.-Spanish 
 DS13: Focus Group 13 Data: Washington D.C.-English
description: coded on-site observation, face-to-face interview 
 This study is related to ICPSR study 24502: Latino National Survey (LNS) -- New England, 2006 and 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. 
This study has both public use and restricted use versions. The restricted use version contains the FIPS codes which were recoded to a 9-series in the public use file.
 For more information on FIPS code please go to the United States Census Bureau American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Codes site.
description: The universe of analysis contains approximately 87.5 percent of the United States Hispanic population. States were first selected based on the overall size of the Latino/Hispanic population. In addition, four states, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, and North Carolina, were added in an attempt to capture the evolving nature of emerging populations in states without lengthy histories of large Latino populations. Georgia and North Carolina, however, rank 12th and 14th, respectively, in terms of Latino population size and would have been included on that basis alone.
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