TABLE 1.

Sociodemographic Characteristics of Vietnamese Adult Survey Respondents and Their Children by Region

	Dallas (n = 500)	Houston (n = 505)	Washington, DC (n = 503)	Total (n = 1508)
Mean year of immigration	1987	1985	1986	1986
Speaks English poorly/not-at-all (%)*	41.2	32.9	28.4	34.2
Education <12 y (%)*	48.1	34.6	33.8	38.9
Income was below poverty level (%)†	30.4	27.7	19.7	26.0
Employed (%)	69.8	67.3	72.4	69.8
Married (%)	86.0	87.1	83.3	85.5
Mean age (y), respondents	41.2	41.6	41.5	41.4
Mean age (y), children	9.8	10.1	9.6	9.8
Sex of child was female (%)	50.8	48.5	49.7	49.7
Had health insurance (%)*	65.8	63.6	76.7	68.7
Child’s provider was non-Vietnamese (%)*	17.6	8.1	10.5	12.8
Child’s provider was Vietnamese (%)*	18.8	27.1	30.6	29.8
Child had institutional provider or no provider (%)*	63.6	64.8	58.9	57.4

^*Comparison of 3 sites by χ² test, P = .001;

^†P = .009.