Navigating Cross-Pressures: 4,785 Latino Political Behavior Records

4,785 records from the 2006 Latino National Survey processed by Jessala Grijalva to analyze how acculturation orientations predict political behavior. The data includes four bidimensional categories—Culture Affirming, Assimilationist, Bicultural, and Demicultural—derived through Gaussian Mixture Model clustering. It contains the processed data and R/Quarto code required to replicate analysis of Latino ideology, party identification, and immigration attitudes.

Use Cases

• Modeling 'party identification' as a function of 'acculturation orientations' (Culture Affirming, Assimilationist, Bicultural, Demicultural)
• Calculating 'Cliff's delta effect sizes' for 'immigration policy preferences' across different clusters
• Analyzing 'DREAM Act support' levels within the 'Bicultural' and 'Demicultural' subgroups

Strengths

• Contains 4,785 individual survey responses
• Provides four distinct acculturation labels derived from Gaussian Mixture Model clustering
• Includes R/Quarto code for reproducing Benjamini-Hochberg FDR corrections and bootstrap confidence intervals

Limitations

• Temporal staleness due to 2006 survey origin
• Geographic bias restricted to U.S. Latino populations
• Acculturation categories are model-generated clusters rather than direct survey responses

Provenance

Source

2006 Latino National Survey / Jessala Grijalva

Collection Method

Survey

Time Range

2006

Freshness

Last updated March 2026; based on 2006 survey data.

Geography

United States