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Cuantos somos: a demographic study of the Mexican American population
Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin • (2) • Published In 1977 • Pages: xvi, 238
By: Teller, Charles H., Estrada, Leo F., Hernández, José, Alvírez, David, Rodríez, Romeo, Bean, Frank D., Bradshaw, Benjamin S., Roberts, Robert E., Cardenas, Gilbert, Cooney, Rosemary Santana, Singelmann, Joachim.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This collection are essays provides a thorough examination of demographic methodological research issues in the study of Chicanos, as well as a wealth of data concerning fertility and mortality, migration, and labor force participation. The published results of a Conference on Mexican American demography, it fills a long-standing gap in the literature on Chicanos.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Composition of population
- Historical and archival research
- Information sources listed in other works
- Reviews and critiques
- Birth statistics
- Conception
- Mortality
- External migration
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- collection
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1869-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edited by Charles H. Teller, Leo F. Estrada, José Hernández and David Alvírez
- Community-oriented demography: toward a micro-structural approach to the study of ethnic populations / Leo F. Estrada and Charles H. Teller --Using census data to study Spanish heritage populations of the United States / Leo F. Estrada, José Hernández and David Alvírez --A comparison of persons of Spanish origin and persons of Spanish surname in the United States using the March 1971 current population survey / Edward Fernandez --Annotated bibliography on the demography of the Mexican American population, with commentary/ Charles H. Teller and Romeo rodríguez --Mexican American fertility / Frank D. Bean and Benjamin S. Bradshaw --The study of mortality in the Mexican American population / Robert E. Roberts -- Mexican labor: a view to conceptualizing the effects of migration, immigration and the Chicano population in the United States / Gilbert Cardenas -- The Mexican American female in the labor force / Rosemary Santana Cooney -- Mexican Americans in the Southwest labor force: some preliminary findings/ Joachim Singelmann -- Chicano demography: where we were, are, and hope to be / José Hernández
- Papers presented at the Conference on the Demographic Study of the Mexican American Population, held at the University of Texas at Austin, May 17-19, 1973
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77093093
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans