Description & Citation--Study No. 9750

Bibliographic Description
Scope of Study
Methodology
Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:

9750

Persistent URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09750

Title:

Adaptation Process of Cuban (Mariel) and Haitian Refugees in South Florida, 1983-1987

Principal Investigator(s):

Alejandro Portes

Funding Agency:

National Science Foundation and Sloan Foundation.

Grant Number:

SES-8215567

Bibliographic Citation:

Portes, Alejandro. ADAPTATION PROCESS OF CUBAN (MARIEL) AND HAITIAN REFUGEES IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 1983-1987 [Computer file]. ICPSR09750-v1. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Sociology, Program in Comparative and International Development [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997.

Scope of Study

Summary:

This survey was designed to examine economic, social, and psychological adaptation of Cuban and Haitian refugees to American society. Cuban (those arriving from the port of Mariel) or Haitian immigrants aged 18 to 60 who arrived in the United States in 1980 or after and settled in designated areas in South Florida were interviewed in 1983 and 1984, with a follow-up interview being conducted in 1986 and 1987. The first interview elicited background information on the two refugee samples and established baseline data on their situations and attitudes shortly after their arrival in the United States. The follow-up interview was designed to gauge changes in respondents' socioeconomic situations, social relations, ethnic identities, and attitudes. Major demographic variables include marital status, number of children, education, present and prior occupations, date and community of birth, prior residency in the United States, and religious practices. Respondents were also asked about their reasons for coming to the United States, plans to change residency, perceptions of discrimination in the United States, and aspirations concerning future occupations, salary, education, and opportunities to reach their goals. The follow-up interview expanded upon or recorded changes in these areas and also added items on perception of problems in the United States, ethnicity of social relationships and neighborhood, satisfaction with living in the United States, plans to return to their homeland, languages spoken, read, and listened to, whether residence was owned or rented, and whether the respondent had become a United States citizen.

Subject Term(s):

acculturation, cultural identity, cultural perceptions, demographic characteristics, population migration, refugees, social adjustment, socioeconomic status, Florida, United States

Time Period:

1983 - 1987

Universe:

Cuban immigrants (those arriving from the port city of Mariel) aged 18 to 60 who arrived in the United States in 1980 or after, living in households in the Florida cities of Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah, and unincorporated Dade County divisions, and Haitian immigrants aged 18 to 60 who arrived in the United States in 1980 or after, living in households in the Florida cities of Miami and Fort Lauderdale and the town of Belle Glade.

Data Type:

survey data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) The codebook for this collection is in Spanish. (2) The codebook and data collection instrument are provided in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

Methodology

Sample:

Stratified multistage area samples.

Data Source:

personal 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:

1993-02-12

Version History:

The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.

2006-03-30 - File CB9750.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

1997-12-19 - The multi-part data definition statements have been consolidated into single SAS and SPSS data definition statements files for each data file and the documentation was converted to a PDF file.

Dataset(s):

DS1: Cuban Data File
DS2: Haitian Data File