Table 3.

Language and Nativity of the Local Population and Access to Care among Insured Mexican Americans

	Dependent Variable: Usual Source of Care		Dependent Variable: Any Office Visit		Dependent Variable: Any Rx Expenditure		Dependent Variable: Any Medical Expenditure
	dF/dx	Standard Error	dF/dx	Standard Error	dF/dx	Standard Error	dF/dx	Standard Error
Specification 1: Percentage of the community population that is Spanish speaking
Lived in the United States <5 years	−0.218	0.091**	−0.127	0.069*	−0.096	0.073	−0.125	0.062**
Lived in the United States >5 years	−0.099	0.035***	−0.013	0.032	−0.021	0.031	0.009	0.024
U.S. born (reference group)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lived in the United States <5 × (percent Spanish speaking)	0.216	0.172	0.180	0.136b†	0.264	0.154*	0.189	0.106*
Lived in the United States >5 × (percent Spanish speaking)	0.148	0.080*b	0.064	0.067b†	0.183	0.071**	0.076	0.054
U.S. born × (percent Spanish speaking)	−0.003	0.072b	−0.072	0.062b	0.085	0.065	0.030	0.049
Specification 2: Percentage of the community population that is foreign born and Spanish speaking
Lived in the United States <5 years	−0.221	0.084***	−0.110	0.062*	−0.091	0.068	−0.126	0.056**
Lived in the United States >5 years	−0.097	0.032***	0.001	0.029	−0.017	0.029	0.019	0.021
U.S. born (reference group)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lived in the United States <5 × (percent foreign born and Spanish speaking)	0.238	0.269	0.339	0.215c	0.380	0.242	0.292	0.170*c
Lived in the United States >5 × (percent foreign born and Spanish speaking)	0.123	0.127b	0.164	0.122	0.259	0.126**	0.052	0.097
U.S. born × (percent foreign born and Spanish speaking)	−0.174	0.125b	−0.021	0.122c	0.110	0.132	0.021	0.100c

Notes: Each regression model includes the full set of individual-level explanatory variables listed in Table 2.

This table reports the change in the probability of the dependent variable for a marginal change in the explanatory variable.

Standard errors are in parentheses.

Asterisks indicate statistical difference of coefficient from zero; letters indicate statistical difference between coefficients.

^***Significance at the .01 level.

^**Significance at the .05 level.

^*Significance at the .10 level.

Letters are included next to each element of the comparison pair, with “a” indicating a difference at the .01 level, “b” indicating significantly different at the .05 level, and “c” indicating significantly different at the .10 level.

^†These coefficients are different from U.S. born × percent Spanish but not from each other.