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CILS-III Completed
The Center announces that the third phase of the
Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS)
has been successfully completed. As in the preceding two surveys,
fieldwork for the study focused on the metropolitan areas of
Miami/Ft. Lauderdale and San Diego, where samples totaling 5,262
second generation youths were originally interviewed in 1992-93. The
CMD-based team was responsible for the South Florida follow-up,
while a team under the direction of Professor Ruben G. Rumbaut of
the University of California-Irvine (UCI) conducted the Southern
California survey. CILS is the largest study conducted so far on the
immigrant second generation, the U.S.-born or U.S.-reared children
of foreign-born parents. One in five of American children under age
18 belong to this group, which is also the fastest growing segment
of this young population. The original survey was conducted when
children were in the 8th and 9th grades, with an average age of 14.
The sample, which included second-generation youths from 77
different nationalities, was followed in time and re-interviewed
three years later, at the time of high school graduation.
Simultaneously, a random sample of 50 percent of their immigrant
parents was also interviewed. Results from these surveys have been
reported in numerous publications, including
Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation,
co-authored by Portes and Rumbaut, which presents the principal
findings of the study up to that point.
The data from Waves I and II of
CILS, including parental interviews, are available
here. The just-completed second follow-up
traced the sample into early adulthood, average age 24, in order to
investigate key factual outcomes of the second generation adaptation
process, including education, employment and occupational status,
income, marital status and ethnicity of spouse, delinquency and
incarceration, civic and political participation, and ethnic and
racial identities. This follow-up survey succeeded in tracing and
retrieving information from 3,564 respondents, representing 68
percent of the original sample and 83 percent of the first
follow-up. Professors Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut,
Principal Investigators, received a grant from the Russell Sage
Foundation to continue this ten-year-long panel study. Results of
the survey are being analyzed by teams of researchers based at CMD
and UCI. Dr. William Haller, a CMD researcher, directed the South
Florida follow-up survey and will participate in its analysis.
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