Mexican origin people in the United States
Subtitle: the 1979 Chicano survey
By: principal investigator, Carlos H. Arce
Series: ICPSR -- 8436; ICPSR (Series) -- 8436
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Mexican Americans; Statistics
Description: The 1979 Chicano survey, conducted by the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, was a household survey of persons of Mexican descent in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Chicago. The purpose of the survey was to compile a statistically representative and comprehensive body of empirical information about the social, economic, and psychological status of Chicanos in the United States. Interviews were conducted in Spanish or English, depending upon the respondent's preference. A total of 991 interviews were collected.The interviews included both open- and closed-ended questions. The major topics included in the interviews were: 1) mental and physical health, and the use of health services; 2) family background, composition, customary practices, and values; 3) language use and attitudes; 4) employment history; and 5) social identity, group conciousness, and political opinions and participation.

This data set is made available through the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Reasearch (ICPSR), and can be accessed by affiliates of Harvard and Radcliffe through the Murray Research Center and the Joint Harvard-MIT Data Center.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1979.

California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Chicago, Illinois.

The data are available in OSIRIS and cards image format.

Approximately 1,800 variables for 991 cases.