Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS), Los Angeles, California, 1992, 1994-1998

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Label

Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS), Los Angeles, California, 1992, 1994-1998

Creator

• University of California, Los Angeles. Institute for Social Research
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Author

• University of California, Los Angeles. Institute for Social Research

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• Ethnicity
• Hispanic or Latino Americans
• aggregate
• communities
• demographic statistics
• employment
• ethnic identity
• immigration
• Affirmative Action
• minorities
• racial tensions
• social attitudes
• social integration
• social values
• survey
• local government
• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Emigration and immigration

Genre

• survey
• aggregate

Summary

This collection contains a cumulative datafile for The Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS) comprised of participants from years 1992 and 1994-1998. The LACSS continues the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Studies (LAMAS) and the Southern California Social Surveys (SCSS). The Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS) is part of a continuing annual research project supported by the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Each year a University of California researcher is given an opportunity to be principal investigator and to use a segment of the LACSS for his or her own research. Data for this collection represents the LACSS conducted between February 1992 and June 1998. No data was included for the year 1993. Each year, Los Angeles County residents were asked questions concerning ethnic relations, social dominance, social distance, immigration, affirmative action, employment, and government. A split ballot methodology was utilized concerning the topics of immigration and affirmative action. Respondents were randomly selected to answer a series of questions from one of three ballots. In addition, a different series of social distance questions were asked depending on the respondent's ethnicity. Demographic information collected includes race, gender, religion, age, education level, occupation, birth place, political party affiliation and ideology, and origin of ancestry