Mexican Origin People in the United States: Detroit Pilot Ethnic Screening Survey, 1979

This survey was a pretest conducted for the purpose of
identifying people of Mexican descent living in Detroit, Michigan for
later inclusion in a more comprehensive national survey. This pretest
survey was also conducted to develop an appropriate and valid
measurement instrument for subsequent screening and national surveys.
The pretest was administered to 474 respondents from February to
August of 1978 in a Detroit neighborhood. The questionnaire elicited
information on the ancestry of household residents from the adult
co-heads or single heads of households. The survey identified 128
households with persons of Mexican descent who were then eligible for
later interviewing.