Little Village Household & Business Data

Data

The datasets are available in SAS format, zipped using PKZIP , and ASCII format. Download the SAS viewer . For other formats, please contact CEDRIC's coordinator at: Cedric@chi.frb.org.

• Household Sample: Household Interviews (ZIP,209KB)
• Household Sample: Household Interviews (ASCII,1MB)
• Business Sample: Household Interviews (ZIP,188KB)
• Business Sample: Household Interviews (ASCII,573KB)
• Business Sample: Business Interviews (ZIP,217KB)
• Business Sample: Business Interviews(ASCII,1MB)

Documentation

• Sample Design and Methodology (PDF,48KB)
• Household Code Book (PDF,156KB)
• Business Code Book (PDF,213KB)
• Household Questionnaire (PDF,209KB)
• Business Questionnaire (PDF,273KB)

Background Information

• Description of Neighborhood (PDF,48KB)
• Description of Community from 1990 Census (XLS,19KB)
• Little Village Map
• Map of Chicago Communities
• Photo Album (PDF,437KB)

Research Studies

• Daniel Aaronson, Paul Huck, and Robert Townsend
  Small Business Access to Trade Credit: Some Evidence of Ethnic Differences (PDF,188KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Policy Studies, May 2000
• Daniel Aaronson, Raphael Bostic, Paul Huck, and Robert Townsend
  Supplier Relationships and Small Business Use of Trade Credit (PDF 385KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Working Paper Series, December 2000
• Philip Bond and Robert Townsend
  Formal and informal financing in a Chicago ethnic neighborhood (PDF,362KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, July/August 1996
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Annual Report 2000 (PDF,1.39MB)
  Highlighted research based on the households and small business owners in these two ethnic/racial communities.
• Paul Huck, Sherrie L. W. Rhine, Philip Bond, and Robert Townsend
  Small Business Finance in Two Chicago Minority Neighborhoods (PDF,493KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, September/October 1999
• Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PDF,293KB)
  Research Perspectives on Migration, Vol. 1, No. 2, January/February 1997
• Michael H. Moskow
  Building Bridges to America's Emerging Urban Markets
  Text of Speech, April 14, 2000
• Rebeca Raijman and Marta Tienda
  Immigrants' Pathways to Business Ownership: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective (PDF,101KB)
  Princeton University Working Paper, July 1999
• Rebeca Raijman and Marta Tienda
  Training Functions of Ethnic Economies: Mexican Entrepreneurs in Chicago (PDF,77KB)
  Princeton University Working Paper, March 2000
• Sherrie L.W. Rhine and Maude Toussaint-Comeau
  The Homeownership and Financing Experience in Two Chicago Minority Neighborhoods (PDF,207KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Policy Studies, December 2000
• Marta Tienda and Rebeca Raijman
  Forging Mobility: Immigrants' Socioeconomic Progress in a Low-Wage Environment
  December 1995
• Maude Toussaint-Comeau and Sherrie L.W. Rhine
  Ethnic Immigrant Enclaves and Homeownership: A Case Study of an Urban Hispanic Community (PDF,131KB)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Policy Studies, December 2000