Description & Citation--Study No. 8450

Bibliographic Description
Scope of Study
Methodology
Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:

8450

Persistent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08450

Title:

Japanese-American Research Project (JARP): a Three-Generation Study, 1890-1966

Principal Investigator(s):

Gene N. Levine

Bibliographic Citation:

Levine, Gene N. JAPANESE-AMERICAN RESEARCH PROJECT (JARP): A THREE-GENERATION STUDY, 1890-1966 [Computer file]. ICPSR08450-v2. Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Institute for Social Science Research/Chicago, IL: National Opinion Research Center [producers], 1985. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997.

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection is a sociohistorical 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, marriage, social relationships, discrimination, and religion. Topics covered in Sansei interviews included 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.

Subject Term(s):

acculturation, Asian Americans, cultural attitudes, cultural values, crosscultural perceptions, discrimination, family life, family structure, immigrants, immigration, racial attitudes, religion, social integration

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:

1890 - 1966

Universe:

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

Data Type:

survey data

Data Collection Notes:

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

Methodology

Sample:

Each generation in this study is a representative nationwide mainland United States sample. The Issei sample was chosen from a project listing 18,000 Issei who survived until 1962 and lived on the United States mainland. It is stratified by county and is designed to achieve equal representation of those living in neighborhoods of six different levels of housing quality. 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 children and grandchildren from the parents.

Data Source:

personal interviews, mail questionnaires, and telephone interviews

Access and Availability

Note:

A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1986-04-28

Version History:

The last update of this study occurred on 1997-10-13.

2006-01-12 - All files were removed from dataset 4 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1997-10-13 - The data collection instruments and documentation have been converted to PDF files, and SPSS data definition statements have been added to this collection.

Dataset(s):

DS1: Issei File
DS2: Nisei File
DS3: Sansei File
DS4: Codebook for All Parts (PDF)