Finding Aid for the National Chicano Survey Records CSRC.300

Doug Johnson

Chicano Studies Research Center Library

May 2018

144 Haines Hall

Box 951544

Los Angeles, California 90095-1544

librarian@chicano.ucla.edu

URL: http://chicano.ucla.edu

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Chicano Studies Research Center Library

Title: National Chicano Survey records

Creator: University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research

Creator: Arce, Carlos H.

Identifier/Call Number: CSRC.300

Physical Description: 38.4 Linear Feet (11 boxes; 34 record storage cartons)

Date (inclusive): 1961-1991

Abstract: This collection contains surveys, administrative records, and research papers related to the National Chicano Survey conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in 1979.

Language of Material: Materials are in English and Spanish.

Physical Location: Materials are stored OFF-SITE at SRLF. All requests to access special ollections must be made two weeks in advance. Please contact the CSRC Library for paging information.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Dr. Aida Hurtado.

Arrangement

The collection is organized in the following series:

Series 1. Completed surveys
Series 2. Research files
Series 3. Administrative files

Biographical / Historical

From the website of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research: "The 1979 Chicano Survey, conducted by the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, was a household survey of persons of Mexican descent living in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois. 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. Interviews were conducted in Spanish or English, depending upon the respondent's preference. 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. The principal investigator was Carlos H. Arce."

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], National Chicano Survey Records, 300, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.

Processing Information

Initially processed by Michelle Simon and Michael Stone, 2009. Processing completed by Doug Johnson, May 2018.

Scope and Contents

The bulk of the collection consists of completed social surveys. There are also administrative records that document the design, distribution, and tabulation of the surveys. There are also research files. Those that pre-date the survey tend to be about sociological methodology. Those that post-date the survey tend to be scholarly articles that explicitly utilized data from the survey.

Conditions Governing Use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Social surveys

Sociology

Series 1. Completed surveys 1979

Language of Material: Participants had the choice of answering in Spanish or English.

Arrangement

The surveys were numbered by the administrators. Whoever numbered the boxes was careful to maintain that order at first, but seems to have given up after four boxes.

Scope and Contents

This series contains completed surveys.

Box 1

000001-000029 1979

Box 2

000030-000057 1979

Box 3

000058-000084 1979

Box 4

000085-000110 1979

Box 20

000111-000138 1979

Box 19

000139-000168 1979

Box 6

000192-000224 1979

Box 31

000225-000233 1979

Box 32

000234-000242 1979

Box 14

000243-000269 1979

Box 13

000270-000296 1979

Box 16

000297-000318 1979

Box 33

000351-000356 1979

Box 15

000363-000388 1979

Box 35

000389-000394 1979

Box 36

000395-000399 1979

Box 28

000400-000421 1979

Box 27

000422-000449 1979

Box 5

000450-000471 1979

Box 10

000500-000534 1979

Box 12

000536-000565 1979

Box 11

000566-000595 1979

Box 7

000596-000621 1979

Box 8

000643-000670 1979

Box 9

000671-000682 1979

Box 30

000683-000711 1979

Box 29

000712-000739 1979

Box 25

000740-000767 1979

Box 26

000768-000797 1979

Box 18

000798-000823 1979

Box 17

000824-000853 1979

Box 22

000854-000884 1979

Box 21

000885-000912 1979

Box 23

000913-000935 1979

Box 24

000930-000964 1979

Box 34

000965-000969 1979

Box 51

000970-000993 1979

Series 2. Research files 1961-1991

Scope and Contents

This series contains research materials, primarily scholarly articles. Those pre-dating the survey are largely about sociological methodology. Those post-dating the survey generally rely heavily on the data from the survey.

Box 37, Folder 1

"Ethnic Identification and Political Consciousness: Unraveling the Effect Among Chicanos" by John A. Garcia undated

Box 37, Folder 2

"The Relationships of Intergroup Contact to Social Identity and Poltical Consciousness" by Jaclyn Rodriguez and Patricia Gurin 1990

Box 37, Folder 3

"Ethnicity and Chicanos: Measurement of Ethnic Identification, Identity, and Consciousness" by John A. Garcia 1982

Box 37, Folder 4

Chicano Sample Writeup from Robert Santos 1980

Box 37, Folder 5

"The Political Integration of Mexican Immigrants: Examining Some Political Orientations" by John A. Garcia 1987

Box 37, Folder 6

"Phenotype and Life Chances among Chicanos" by Carlos H. Arce, Edward Murguia, and W. Parker Frisbie 1987

Box 37, Folder 7

"New Perspectives of Chicano Intergenerational Occupational Mobility" by C. Matthew Snipp and Marta Tienda 1985

Box 37, Folder 8

"Chicano Career Mobility" by C. Matthew Snipp and Marta Tienda 1985

Box 37, Folder 9

"The Effects of Cultural Assimilation and Education on Mexican American Workers' Earnings" by Carlos H. Arce and David L. Torres 1983

Box 37, Folder 10

"Unequal Empoloyment Status and Ethnicity: Further Analysis of the USPI-ESPI Model" by Fernando I. Soriano and Albert Ramirez 1991

Box 37, Folder 11

"The Social Psychological Cost of Mexican Culture to Mexican-American Women" by Vilma Ortiz undated

Box 37, Folder 12

"Sex, Ethnicity, and Chicano Status Attainment" by Marta Tienda 1982

Box 37, Folder 13

La Red/The Net: Newsletter of the National Chicano Council on Higher Education 1980-1986

Box 37, Folder 14

"A Methodological Report on the Sample Design of the 1979 National Chicano Survey" by Robert L. Santos 1985

Box 37, Folder 15

Hispanic Mental Health Bibiliography undated

Box 42, folder 1

1976 Survey of Travis County, Texas 1977

Box 42, folder 2

1960 and 1970 Spanish Heritage Population of the Southwest by County 1978

Box 42, folder 3

"Ethnic Minority Family Research in an Urban Setting: A Process of Exchange" by Ronald E. Cromwell, C. Edwin Vaughan, and Charles H. Mindel 1975

Box 42, folder 4

"Ethical Issues in Research on Vulnerable Populations: Case Studies in Crowding Research" by Chalsa M. Loo undated

Box 42, folder 5

"Hispanic Archiving, Communications, Networking, Training, and Data Management Activities of the NCRN" 1981

Box 42, Folder 6

Law School Admission Research 1977

Box 42, Folder 7

"E Pluribus Plura - Congress and Bilingual Education" by Abigail M. Thernstrom 1980

Box 42, Folder 8

Civil Rights Digest 1978-1979

Scope and Contents

Vol. 10, no. 4 and vol. 11, no. 3.

Box 42, Folder 9

Critical Anthropology, vol. II. no. 2 Spring 1972

Box 42, Folder 10

Famulus - a Personal Documentation System User's Manual 1971

Box 42, Folder 11

"Predicting Black Student Grades with Nonintellectual Measures" by C. Michael Pfeifer, Jr. and William E. Sedlacek 1974

Scope and Contents

Also includes other materials.

Box 42, Folder 12

Imagenes de la Chicana undated

Scope and Contents

Stanford literary magazine.

Box 42, Folder 13

"Early Childhood Education: A Selected Bibliography" 1972

Box 42, Folder 14

Socioecomic achievement and ethnicity proposal 1979

Box 42, Folder 15

Adaptation of Mexican Immigrant Adolescents - grant application 1979

Box 42, Folder 16

Human Rights Calendar 1983

Box 42, Folder 17

"Identification and Consciousness" by Jaclyn Rodriguez-Scheel 1982

Box 42, Folder 18

"Identification and Consciousness: The Impact on Chicano Linguistic Attitudes" by Aida Hurtado 1982

Box 42, Folder 19

Puerto Rican Migration Research Consortium annual report 1978

Box 42, Folder 20

Access of Black Americans to Higher Education: How Open Is the Door? 1979

Box 42, Folder 21

Phenotype paper 1982

Box 42, folder 26

Programa Nacional Fronterizo Boletin 1967 October

Box 42, folder 27

Report to the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor 1963 August 12

Box 42, folder 28

National Conference on Poverty in the Southwest - summary report 1965

Box 42, folder 29

Catalog of Authorized Subjects - Junior and Senior High Schools - Los Angeles City Schools 1965

Box 42, folder 30

Racial Discrimination in Federally Assisted Education Programs - congressional hearing transcript 1963

Box 42, folder 31

Cabinet Committee Hearings on Mexican American Affairs - presentations circa 1967

Box 42, folder 32

"Municipal Government in El Salvador" circa 1990

Box 42, folder 33

Honduras - reports 1989

Box 42, folder 34

Costa Rica 1984

Box 42, folder 35

"Initiatives for the Privatization of Selected Municipal Services of Guatemala City, Guatemala, C.A." 1990

Box 44, Folder 1

"Chicano Participation in Academe: A Case of Academic Colonialism" by Carlos H. Arce 1978

Box 44, Folder 2

FOCUS, vol. 3, no. 3 Spring 1979

Box 44, Folder 3

Higher Education and the Student Rebellion in the United States 1960-1969: A Bibliography by Bettina Aptheker 1969

Box 44, Folder 4

"Implications of the Social Context for Higher Education" by Zelda F. Gamson and Carlos H. Arce 1978

Box 44, Folder 5

A Typological Approach to Doing Social Area Analysis by Harold F. Goldsmith, et al. 1975

Box 44, Folder 14

M. Tienda handouts 1961-1978

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of various scholarly articles.

Series 3. Administrative files 1970-1983

Scope and Contents

This series contains material on the creation, distribution, and tabulation of the survey.

Box 37, Folders 16-17

Unused surveys, Part II 1979

Box 41

Sampling information 1970-1979

Scope and Contents

Includes information on the counties to be surveyed, documents on procedures, training manuals, field notes.

Box 42, Folder 22

Austin pilot study undated

Box 42, Folder 23

Pre-test notes undated

Box 42, Folder 24

Austin code book undated

Box 42, Folder 25

Detroit pre-test / labor questions undated

Box 42, Folders 36-39

Questionnaire drafts and revisions 1977-1978

Box 43, Folder 1

Building listings 1979

Box 43, Folder 2

Field handbook undated

Box 43, Folder 3

Materials checklist 1979

Box 43, Folder 4

Undeliverable surveys 1979

Box 43, Folder 5

Overhead projection slides used in training 1979

Box 43, Folder 6

Record of returned contact letters 1979

Box 43, Folder 7

Questionnaires 1979

Box 43, Folder 8

Study of modern living 1976

Box 43, Folders 9-12

Voided surveys 1979

Scope and Contents

Contains surveys at various states of completion that were excluded from the final analysis for some reason.

Box 44, Folders 6-12

Detroit pre-tests 1978

Box 44, Folder 13

Austin study 1978

Box 44, Folders 15-16

Codebooks 1980

Box 44, Folder 17

Miscellaneous 1978-1983

Box 45

Instrument development undated

Box 46, Folder 1

Show cards - social identity decks undated

Box 46, Folder 2

Coding development and related work 1979

Box 47

Coding instructions 1980

Box 48

Coding material 1977-1979

Scope and Contents

Includes material on how to analyze the completed surveys, in particular the sections on mental health.