Table 3.

Alcohol use by first generation (immigrant) Mexican youth, hazard ratios (θ)

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 5
Independent Variablesa	θ	θ	θ	θ	θ
Assimilation
Proportion of non-Hispanic friends	0.722		0.686†	0.684†	0.694†
Proportion of non-Hispanic neighbors	0.957		0.982	0.983	0.921
Lived in U.S. 5-10 years	1.558		1.350	1.355	1.286
Lived in U.S. 10+ years	2.273†		2.097	2.107	2.707*
Parent-child language conflict	0.640		0.751	0.752	0.526†
Demographics
Male		2.108*	1.844*	1.849*	1.976*
Age		2.045***	2.109***	2.116***	1.815***
Income		1.042	1.036	1.036	1.087
Family and Communication
Family support index				1.009	1.095
Perception of Peer Substance Use
Peer alcohol use					3.389***
Number of events	54	54	54	54	54
Number of observations	260	260	260	260	260
-2 Log Likelihood	491.373	472.224	466.009	465.999	452.363

^†p<0.10

^*p<0.05

^**p<0.01

^***p<0.001 (two-tailed)

^aDemographic variables (except age) and assimilation are measured only at baseline; all other predictors are lagged one wave.