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• Adaptation Process of Cuban and Haitian Refugees
  Longitutidinal study that focuses on 2 samples of refugees living in southern Florida: a group of 514 Cuban refugees who arrived as part of the Mariel boat lift of 1980, and a sample of 500 Haitian refugees who arrived between 1980 and 82. The questionnaire administered at the time of the refugee's arrival combined items on various aspects of adaptation with questions on the respondent's background prior to arrival, their reasons for coming, details of their journey to the United States, and tracing information necessary to conduct the second interview. The 2nd interview focused exclusively on 3 main aspects comprising the immigrant (refugee) adaptation process these include: (1) structural adaptation or educational, occupational and economic mobility in the host society; (2) cultural adaptation conceptualized as changes in self-perception, attitudes, language use and other normative patterns; and social adaptation, or shifts in the individual's network of primary and secondary relationships within the ethnic circle.

• Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country (1998+)
  Purpose was to gather data on all adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. Provides data on the number of inmates, staffing, and facility characteristics and needs of all confinement facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

• Boston Youth Labor (Market) Survey (1980, 1989)
  Also referred to as the Young Black Men Employment Study.

• CEAP data
  Survey of racial and other social attitudes in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

• Changing Channels and Crisscrossing Cultures: A Survey of Latinos on the News Media
  Getting the news could be the single most extensive cross-cultural experience for the Hispanic population in America. A growing number of Hispanics switch between English and Spanish to get the news. This survey shows that many more Latinos get at least some of their news in both English and Spanish than in just one language or the other.

• Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion (2006 Hispanic Religion Survey)
  In order to explore the complex nature of religion among Latinos, the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life collaborated on a set of public opinion surveys.

• Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS)
  Designed to study the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation which is defined broadly as U.S.-born children with at least one foreign-born parent or children born abroad but brought at an early age to the United States.

• Class and Ethnicity: Polish Migrant Workers in London, 1996-2006
  Examines recent Polish migrations to London and the socio-cultural consequences for Poland and the UK as well as individual narratives about ethnicity, class, migration and multicultural Britain. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001-2003 [United States]
  Initiated in recognition of the need for contemporary, comprehensive epidemiological data regarding the distributions, correlates and risk factors of mental disorders among the general population with special emphasis on minority groups. Primary objective was to collect data about the prevalence of mental disorders, impairments associated with these disorders, and their treatment patterns from representative samples of majority and minority adult populations in the United States. Secondary goals were to obtain information about language use and ethnic disparities, support systems, discrimination and assimilation, in order to examine whether and how closely various mental health disorders are linked to social and cultural issues.

• Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project (CIEP)
  Survey of over 1,200 Colombian, Dominican, and Salvadoran family heads is the first to explicitly measure the extent of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnationalism among immigrants and to develop predictive models of these activities.

• Comparative Immigrant Organization Project (CIOP)
  This survey of 89 Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican organization leaders and additional interviews with community activists and government officials is part of a larger study of the organizations constructed by Latin American immigrants in the United States and their impact on the political incorporation of these immigrants to American society. This specific dataset was designed to give us greater understanding of the forces creating and sustaining these organizations and to test several preliminary hypotheses about the effects of contexts of exit and modes of incorporation in receiving countries on the character of immigrant transnationalism. Accordingly, there are detailed measures of the extent of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnationalism and characteristics of both the organizations and their members.

• Court Workforce Racial Diversity and Racial Justice in Criminal Case Outcomes in the United States, 2000-2005
  Purpose was to determine whether workgroup racial composition is related to sentence outcomes generally, and racial differences in sentencing in particular, across federal districts. Contains information on federal court district characteristics. Data include information about the social context, court context, and diversity of the courtroom workgroup for 90 federal judicial districts provided by 50 judicial district context variables.

• Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
  The aim of this longitudinal study, based on data on Cuban and Mexican immigrants to the USA collected in 1973-74, was to map the process of immigrant adaptation and incorporation into the labor market.

• Data Folha Survey of Racial Attitudes of 1995
  Survey of racial attitudes and perceptions in Brazil.

• Detroit Area Studies
  Initiated in 1951. Has been carried out nearly every year till the present. Provides reliable data on the Greater Detroit community. Each survey probes a different aspect of personal and public life, economic and political behavior, political attitudes, professional and family life, and living experiences in the Detroit metropolitan area. Includes The Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS) (2003).

• Diversitydata.org
  Allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures. These data call attention to the equality of opportunity and diversity of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

• Dynamics of Idealism: Volunteers for Civil Rights (1965-1982)
  Represents questionnaires administered to volunteers in the 1965 Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) before and after a two and a half month voter registration effort in May and the Fall of 1965, and a follow-up study in 1982. Topics covered include the volunteer's background, attitudes toward racial and political issues, commitment to social change, and prior experience with Blacks and activism.

• Ethnic Diversity Survey (Canada) (2002)
  Survey on ethnicity, its various dimensions and related issues of changing cultural diversity in Canada. Topics covered in the survey include ethnic ancestry, ethnic identity, place of birth, visible minority status, religion, religious participation, knowledge of languages, family background, family interaction, social networks, civic participation, interaction with society, attitudes, satisfaction with life, trust and socio-economic activities. The target population for the main survey are persons aged 15 years or over living in private households in the 10 provinces. The population does not include persons living in collective dwellings, persons living on Indian reserves, persons declaring an Aboriginal origin or identity in the 2001 Census, or persons living in Northern and remote areas.

  Sample Size: Final sample was 57,242 persons. Of that number, 42,476 responded to the survey, which corresponds to an overall response rate of 75.6% if the 1057 persons classified as being outside the scope of the survey are taken into account.

• European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Information Portal
  Provides access to relevant information and data in the fields of fundamental rights in context of the European Union and its Member States. At the moment the Infoportal holds a sizeable collection of writing on racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and related intolerances.

• General Social Survey (1972-2008) (GSS)
  Produced biennially since 1994, the GSS is a long running survey of social, cultural and political indicators. In addition to the GSS, topic modules, designed to investigate new issues or to expand the coverage of an existing subject, are administered. Examples of topic modules include computer and Internet, racial and ethnic prejudice, and child mental-health stigma. The GSS has participated since 1985 in the International Social Survey Program. A listing of modules performed through 2008 is available. For quick crosstabs and correlations use the SDA version which is available for free through University of California at Berkeley. For more information, see the NORC website.

  Sample Size: Over the life of the survey, more than 43,000 respondents, with about 3,000 added biennially.

• General Social Survey Topical Module 2002: Racial and Ethnic Prejudice
  In addition to this topical module, the General Social Survey conducted oversamples of minority groups in 1982 and 1987 to make richer analysis of subgroups possible.

• Governmental Units Analysis Data, 1960: Urban Racial Disorders, 1961-1968
  Consists of individual riot and riot summary information for civil disorders which occurred between 1961 and 1968 in cities with a 1960 population exceeding 25,000.

• Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (1993-2005)
  Collected data on a representative sample of community-dwelling Mexican-American elderly, aged 65 years & older, residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Provides estimates of the prevalence of key physical health conditions, mental health conditions, and functional impairments in older Mexican Americans and to compare these estimates with those for other populations. Attempted to determine whether certain risk factors for mortality and morbidity operate differently in Mexican Americans than in non-Hispanic White Americans, African Americans, and other major ethnic groups. Covers demographic characteristics (age, sex, type of Hispanic race, income, education, marital status, number of children, employment, and religion), height, weight, social and physical functioning, chronic conditions, related health problems, health habits, self-reported use of dental, hospital, and nursing home services, and depression. Follow-up studies examined quality of life, changes in health, medication. Wave V includes additional samples.

• Houston Area Survey, 1982-2007: Successive Representative Samples of Harris County Residents
  Longitudinal study that began in May 1982 after Houston recovered from recession of the mid-1980s. Measured the public responses to the new economic, educational, and environmental challenges. Part 1, All Responses from 25 Successive Samples, contains all the responses from the successive representative samples of Harris County residents from 1982 through 2007. These are the data that enabled the project to analyze continuity and change among area residents over the course of 26 years. In 13 of the 14 surveys (the years from 1994 through 2007, the one exception being 1996), the surveys were expanded with oversample interviews in Houston's ethnic communities. Using identical random-selection procedures, and terminating after the first few questions if the respondent was not of the ethnic background required, additional interviews were conducted in each of the years to enlarge and equalize the samples of Anglo, African-American, and Hispanic respondents at about 500 each. In 1995 & 2002, the research also included large representative samples (N=500) from Houston's Asian communities. These additional interviews are included in Part 2, Additional Oversample Interviews. The data contained in Part 2 are based on a 14-year total of 6,576 Anglos, 6,086 African-Americans, 6,094 Hispanics, and 1,250 Asians, along with 387 others, and are of particular value in assessing the similarities and differences both within and among Houston's (and America's) 4 largest ethnic groups. Beginning in 2003, the data files have incorporated detailed information from the 2000 Census on the characteristics of the respondent's neighborhood, not only at the level of home ZIP code, but also by Census tract & block group. Found in Part 3, Information from 2000 Census, these data record the population and geographical area of each of the three sectors, distributions by ethnicity & immigrant status, age & gender composition, employment & commuting patterns, and levels of education & income. With this information incorporated in the datasets covering 5 years of expanded surveys, researchers are able to connect the respondents' perceptions and experiences with information on the neighborhoods in which they live, thereby adding a contextual dimension to analyses of the factors that account for individual differences in attitudes and beliefs. Measured perspectives on the local and national economy, on poverty programs, inter-ethnic relationships. Also captured were respondents' beliefs about discrimination and affirmative action, education, crime, health care, taxation, and community service, as well as their assessments of downtown development, mobility and transit, land-use controls, and environmental concerns, and their attitudes toward abortion, homosexuality, and other aspects of the social agenda. Also recorded were religious and political orientations, as well as an array of demographic and immigration characteristics, socioeconomic indicators, and family structures.

• Intergroup Contact and the Construction of Racial Inequality and Injustice in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 2006-2007
  Two surveys were conducted in post-apartheid South Africa to explore, among other factors, attitudes towards race-targeted policies, perceptions of racial justice and discrimination, and racial prejudice. Also examined people's experiences of inter-racial contact in terms of both its frequency and its quality and were designed to explore the relationship between such contact and various kinds of political attitudes. Survey 1 sampled black, coloured, Indian & white South Africans. Survey 2 sampled white & black South Africans. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Latin American Migration Project (LAMP)
  Born as an extension of the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), which was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to advance our understanding of the complex processes of international migration and immigration to the United States.

• Latino National Political Survey, 1989-1990
  Measured the political attitudes and behaviors of three specific Latino groups in the United States: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban. A non-Latino comparison group was also interviewed.

  Sample Size: 3415 Total: 2817 Latinos (1546 Mexican, 589 Puerto Rican, 682 Cuban), 598 non-Latinos

  Citation:
  Latino National Political Survey, 1989-1990 (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Rodolfo de la Garza, Angelo Falcon, F. Chris Garcia, John A. Garcia
  Producer: Philadelphia, PA: Temple University, Institute for Social Research
  Distributor: Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  Version: 3rd ICPSR version
  

• Latino National Survey
  Contains 8,634 completed interviews (unweighted) of self-identified Latino/Hispanic residents of the United States. Interviewing began on November 17, 2005, and continued through August 4, 2006. 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. 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.

• Latino National Survey (LNS)--New England, 2006
  New England extension of the Latino National Survey, 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. 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. 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.

• Little Village Survey
  Little Village, a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, is the largest Mexican community in the Midwestern United States. The Little Village Survey consists of business and household surveys. The business surveys reveal how ethnicity influences the creation and development of businesses through multiple social and economic domains.

  Sample Size: Business - 244 enterprises; Household - 325 respondents.

• Longitudinal Three-Nation Study on Relations between Ethnic Minorities and Host Societies among School Students, 2004-2005
  Looked at the views of adolescent school students in England, Germany and Belgium. Using the same questionnaire in 3 languages, members of ethnic minority groups and members of the host societies were targeted. Based on social psychological research on intergroup relations, acculturation, prejudice and relative deprivation the study was designed to investigate perceptions of and attitudes between both groups. Data collection took place in waves of measurement with an average time interval of 6 months in between. Some individuals were completed the survey in both waves providing a longitudinal element. Background variables include ethnicity, native language, years of residence in the country, parental occupation and education. Variables capturing intergroup perceptions include in-group identification, relative deprivation, acculturation preferences and goals, group permeability, economic competition and others. Intergroup attitudes were assessed both explicitly (liking, desire for social distance, emotions toward the other group) and implicitly (infrahumanisation). To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Mexican Origin People in the United States: the 1979 Chicano Survey
  Household survey of persons of Mexican descent living in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois. The purpose was to compile a statistically representative and comprehensive body of empirical information about the social, economic, and psychological status of Chicanos. Major topics covered were mental and physical health and use of health services, family background and composition, customary practices and values, language use and attitudes, employment history, social identity, group consciousness, and political opinions and participation.

  Sample Size: Of over 11,000 people screened, 1,400 met the Mexican ancestry criterion. Of this total, 991 interviews were collected.

• Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project (1945+)
  Tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. Focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have "political significance" in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions. Political significance is determined by: (1) The group collectively suffers, or benefits from, systematic discriminatory treatment vis-a-vis other groups in a society and (2) The group is the basis for political mobilization and collective action in defense or promotion of its self-defined interests.

• Minority Data Resource Center
  Provides data resources for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.

• Murray Research Archive - Diversity Archive
  Consists of numerous studies with racially and ethnically diverse samples. Also houses a number of studies focusing on specific ethnic groups and on ethnic relations.

  Application may need to be made directly to the Murray Research Archive for permission to use the data.

• National Black Election Studies
  Large-scale academic survey of the political attitudes and voting behavior of Black Americans. Conducted in 1984, 1988, and 1996. The 1984 and 1988 surveys were longitudinal in nature.

  Sample Size: Pre-election: 1984-1,150; 1988-473; 1996-1,216. Post-election: 1984-872; 1988-392; 1996-854.

• National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), 2002-2003
  Nationally representative community household survey that estimates the prevalence of mental disorders and rates of mental health service utilization by Latinos and Asian Americans in the United States.

• National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF)
  Developed to provide comprehensive data to test different theoretical explanations for minority underachievement in higher education. Measures the academic and social progress of college students at regular intervals at selective schools. Notable for including equal-sized samples of white, black, Asian, and Latino freshmen entering selective colleges and universities.

  Sample Size: 28 institutions. 3924 students (959 Asians, 998 whites, 1,051 African Americans, 916 Latinos).

• National Race and Politics Survey (1991)
  Asked questions to gauge attitudes about welfare, race relations, altruism, and members of other races.

• National Survey of American Life (NSAL), 2001-2003
  Designed to explore racial and ethnic differences in mental disorders, psychological distress, and informal and formal service use from within the context of a variety of presumed risk and protective factors in the African-American and Afro-Caribbean populations of the United States as compared with White respondents living in the same communities.

• National Survey of Black Americans 1979-1980, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1992
  Developed with input from social scientists, students, and a national advisory panel of Black scholars, the survey investigates neighborhood-community integration, services, crime and community contact, the role of religion and the church, physical and mental health, self-esteem, life satisfaction, employment, the effects of chronic unemployment, the effects of race on the job, interaction with family and friends, racial attitudes, race identity, group stereotypes, and race ideology. Demographic variables include education, marital status, income, employment status, occupation, and political behavior and affiliation.

• National Survey of Latinos (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007)
  Surveys among the Latino community with themes each year (immigration, politcs and civil participation, education).

  Sample Size: Nationally representative samples of Latino respondents ages 18 and older.

• Office for Civil Rights Surveys (1968-1974, 1994)
  Examined issues of school desegregation. Contains data on racial and ethnic composition of students and staff for each academic year in selected school districts. The 1994 Civil Rights Compliance Report also collected data from selected school districts and schools within each selected district.

• Pew Hispanic Center
  The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research organization. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the United States.

• Pew Hispanic Center Survey of Mexicans Living in the U.S. on Absentee Voting in Mexican Elections
  Interviews were conducted from January 16 - February 6, 2006 among a representative sample of 987 Mexican respondents age 18 and older. A total of 62 are registered to vote and 922 are not registered to vote.

• Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001
  Multicity, multiethnic, and multilingual survey that provides a preliminary attempt to gauge the political attitudes and behavior of Asian Americans on a national scale.

  Sample Size: 1218

  Citation:
  Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001 (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Pei-te Lien, University of Utah
  Producer: Van Nuys, CA: Interviewing Service of America, Inc.
  Distributor: Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  Version: ICPSR
  

• Pretrial Release of Latino Defendants in the United States, 1990-2004
  Assessed the impact of Latino ethnicity on pretrial release decisions in large urban counties.

• Resident Relocation Survey
  Survey of public housing leaseholders in Phase II of the Chicago Housing Authority's Housing Transformation initiative.

• Socio-Economic Position and Political Support of Black and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United Kingdom, 1972-2005
  Examines the labor market position of the minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom; compares the inter- and intra-generational experience of the minority ethnic groups in the British labor market both amongst themselves and between these groups and the white British population; assesses the extent and the nature of 'ethnic penalty', particularly as experienced by 'second generation' minority ethnic citizens; and provides evidence for the debate between human capital and social capital theories on ethnic disadvantages and for policy-making. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Survey of Chicago African Americans (1997)
  Telephone survey of African Americans aged 18 years or older, residing in certain areas of the city of Chicago.

  Sample Size: 756 completed interviews

• Survey on Regional and Ethnic Prejudice in Italy (1994)
  Designed to assess the attitudes of Italians toward recent immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe, and to measure the current state of relations between Northern and Southern Italians. It also included many items on politics and society. The survey was a nationwide telephone survey. The target population for the survey was defined as all Italian adults aged 18-69, residing in households with telephones. The percentage of households in Italy that have a telephone is currently estimated to be about 90%.

• UK Data Archive. Ethnic Minorities; Equality and Inequality Data.
  Various datasets on ethnic minorities and equality and inequality from the United Kingdom Data Archive. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA. Not all data is available outside the United Kingdom but most is.

• UK Data Archive. Race Relations.
  Various datasets on race relations from the United Kingdom Data Archive. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA. Not all data is available outside the United Kingdom but most is.

• Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States] (1960+)
  Periodic nationwide assessments of reported crimes not available elsewhere in the criminal justice system. With the 1977 data, the title was expanded to Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data. Each year, participating law enforcement agencies contribute reports to the FBI either directly or through their state reporting programs. ICPSR archives the UCR data as 5 separate components: (1) summary data, (2) county-level data, (3) incident-level data (National Incident-Based Reporting System [NIBRS]), (4) hate crime data, and (5) various, mostly nonrecurring, data collections. Summary data are reported in four types of files: (a) Offenses Known and Clearances by Arrest, (b) Property Stolen and Recovered, (c) Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR), and (d) Police Employee (LEOKA) Data (Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Assaulted). County-level data provide counts of arrests and offenses aggregated to the county level. County populations are also reported. In the late 1970s, new ways to look at crime were studied. The UCR program was subsequently expanded to capture incident-level data with the implementation of the National Incident-Based Reporting System. The NIBRS data focus on various aspects of a crime incident. Gathering of hate crime data by the UCR program was begun in 1990. Hate crimes are defined as crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. In September 1994, disabilities, both physical and mental, were added to the list. The 5th component of ICPSR's UCR holdings is comprised of various collections, many of which are nonrecurring and prepared by individual researchers. These collections go beyond the scope of the standard UCR collections provided by the FBI, either by including data for a range of years or by focusing on other aspects of analysis.

• What ethnic Americans really think
  Contains results of surveys of six major American ethnic groups (Hispanic Americans, Italian Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Arab Americans and Asian Pacific Americans) analyzing family background and lifestyle characteristics for each ethnic group, along with an analysis on areas of commonality and differences on major policy issues. The groups were all polled between December 1999 and February 2000.