21.12137/P6YSXO Staponkutė, Dalia Dalia Staponkutė https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4452-952X Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania [Project Member; Data collection] Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA) 2026 Arts and Humanities Social Sciences emigrants national identity mother tongue native languages education immigration policy Migration Language and linguistics Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA) Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756]) 2026-03-30 2025-11-14 2025-12-13 2026-03-30 2024-07-02/2025-11-14 Interview data: Semi-structured interviews (LiDA Controlled Vocabulary for Types of Social Science Data);Qualitative (DDI Alliance CV for Kind of Data) LiDA_InterviewData_0678 19059592 98965 32585 application/x-gzip application/pdf application/x-gzip 1.0 Custom terms specific to this dataset &lt;p&gt;This dataset contains the data from interviews conducted in 2024–2025 with Lithuanian diaspora activists representing Lithuanian communities in the Americas and Oceania. The study aimed to identify the factors that determine the sustainability of Lithuanian identity among the descendants of Lithuanian emigrants in their countries of immigration. &lt;p&gt;The dataset includes interviews with representatives from the following communities:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in Argentina&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in Australia&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in the United States (Dallas, State of Texas)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in the United States (New York, State of New York)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in the United States (Omaha, State of Nebraska)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in Canada&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Lithuanian Community in Uruguay.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt; &lt;b&gt;To use this dataset, the user must obtain PERMISSION from the leader of the project &quot;Demographic, economic, energetic, food, and epidemiological resilience of modern Lithuanian society and nation (1883-2023)&quot; Professor Zenonas Norkus.&lt;/b&gt; To ask for permission, write to &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:data@ktu.lt&quot;&gt;data@ktu.lt&lt;/a&gt;. <p>The main language of the data is Lithuanian (lit).</p> Other Argentina Australia Canada Uruguay United States Vilnius, Lithuania Research Council of Lithuania (Competitive priority research programme &quot;Building Societal Resilience and Crisis Management in the Context of Contemporary Geopolitical Events&quot;) S-VIS-23-15