Table 4.

Poor health status of parents of children ages 17 and younger, by source of Mexican ethnicity

	3rd Generation	4th+ Generation
Percent of fathers reporting poor health status:
Mexican on both sides of the family	8.55	9.76
	(.49)	(.46)
Mexican on one side of the family	5.82	6.08
	(.46)	(.29)
All	7.35	7.51
	(.34)	(.25)
Percent of mothers reporting poor health status:
Mexican on both sides of the family	6.84	7.35
	(.44)	(.40)
Mexican on one side of the family	5.93	6.72
	(.47)	(.31)
All	6.44	6.96
	(.32)	(.24)

Source: 1996–2017 CPS March supplement data. Standard errors are shown in parentheses. The samples include US-born children ages 17 and below who live in intact families. Third-generation Mexicans are US-born, have two US-born parents, and at least one grandparent born in Mexico. Fourth+-generation Mexicans are US-born, have two US-born parents, have no grandparents born in Mexico, and at least one parent who identifies as Mexican on the Hispanic origin question