Japanese-American research project (JARP)
Subtitle: a three-generation study, 1890-1966
By: prinicpal investigator, Gene N. Levine
Series: ICPSR -- 8450; ICPSR (Series) -- 8450
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 35773
Subjects: Japanese Americans
Description: This data collection is a socio-historical study of the ways in which three generations (Issei, Nisei, and Sansei) of Japanese American families adapted to social, cultural, educational, occupational, and other institutions of American life. The study examines the experience of the first immigrants to the United States (Issei), and their children (Nisei) and grandchildren (Sansei). Interviews with Issei families stressed the difficulties faced by the immigrants during their early years in the United States, as well as aspects of social and cultural life. Interviews with Nisei included questions on employment, attitudes toward work, income, education, attitudes toward marriage, social relationships, discrimination and religion. Topics covered in Sansei interviews include birth order, age, marital status, children, social relationships, occupation, industry, income, education, Japanese value systems, marital choices, influence of parents and grandparents, discrimination, religion, political attitudes and migration.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Chronological coverage: 1890-1966.

Personal interviews, mail questionnaires, and telephone interviews.

Survey data.

United States.

For reasons of confidentiality, the third column (city, county) of all locations in all three files was blanked with zeros. The first two columns (section, state) of the affected 19 variables remain intact. The files are in card-image format.

Part number: 1 ; part name: Issei file ; case count: 1,047 ; variable count: 475 ; logical record length: 80 ; records per case: 9 ; file structure: rectangular.

Part number: 2 ; part name: Nisei file ; case count: 2,304 ; variable count: 339 ; logical record length: 80 ; records per case: 9 ; file structure: rectangular.

Part number: 3 ; part name: Sansei file ; case count: 802 ; variable count: 315 ; logical record length: 80 ; records per case: 7 ; file structure: rectangular.

Each generation in this study is a representative nation-wide mainland United States sample. The Issei sample was chosen from a project listing 18,000 Issei who survived until 1962 and lived on the U.S. mainland. It is stratified by county. It is designed to achieve equal representation of those living in neighborhoods of six different levels of housing equality. The sample is further stratified to represent the density of the population of the Japanese-American community within each county. Nisei and Sansei respondents were obtained by requesting the names and addresses of the children and grandchildren from their parents.

The Issei sample was chosen from a project listing 18,000 Issei who survived until 1962 and lived on the U.S. mainland.

Bonacich, Edna, and John Modell. The Economics Basis of Ethnic Solidarity: Small Business in the Japanese American Community. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Ichioka, Yuji, et al. A Buried Past: An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974.

Levine, Gene N., and Colbert Rhodes. The Japanese American Community: A Three-Generation Study. New York: Praeger, 1981.