Table 3.
Lifetime Prevalence of DSM-IV Substance Abuse or Dependence1 by Language Use with Family for U.S. Latino Men and Women, Age 18–64 years.
| Men | Women | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| More English with family2,3 | More Spanish with family2,3 | All4 | More English with family2,3 | More Spanish with family2,3 | All4 | |
| N | 338 | 613 | 951 | 387 | 779 | 1166 |
| U.S. born | ||||||
| One or both parents U.S. born | 41.3 (4.3) | 24.6 (7.3) | 32.1 (3.6) | 17.8 (3.7) | 6.5 (2.9) | 13.4 (2.7) |
| Both parents foreign born | 28.3 (7.0) | 16.0 (5.8) | 24.3 (3.7) | 7.9 (3.4) | 2.5 (1.6) | 6.0 (1.8) |
| Immigrants | ||||||
| Age (y) of arrival into U.S. | ||||||
| 0–6 | 29.5 (10.9) | 9.9 (5.4) | 19.0 (6.6) | 10.5 (4.8) | 0.9 (0.9) | 5.5 (2.7) |
| 7–17 | 14.0 (5.8) | 8.9 (4.9) | 10.5 (4.1) | 0.5 (0.5) | 0.6 (0.6) | 0.5 (0.4) |
| 18–24 | 15.0 (6.6) | 7.1 (2.8) | 8.4 (2.6) | 0 (0) | 0.3 (0.3) | 0.3 (0.2) |
| ≥25 | 37.5 (18.4) | 6.5 (3.7) | 9.1 (3.7) | 0 (0) | 0.1 (0.1) | 0.1 (0.1) |
Prevalence rates, given as percentages with standard errors shown in parentheses, adjusted by age within each nativity, parents’ nativity, and age of arrival category.
p = 0.002 for men and p < 0.001 for women for test of difference between family language use categories from logistic regression stratified by parents’ nativity and age of arrival categories with age-adjusted weights; see Methods.
“More Spanish” denotes the responses “Spanish all or most of the time or Spanish and English equally” for U.S. born with one or both parents U.S. born, “Spanish all or most of the time” for U.S. born with both parents foreign born and foreign born with age of arrival 0–6 years, and “Spanish all the time” for all other categories of foreign born. “More English” denotes other responses.
p < 0.001 for both men and women for differences among nativity, parents’ nativity, and age of arrival categories (from the Rao–Scott statistic for the Pearson χ2 test for the 2 × 6 contingency table). p = 0.005 for joint test of difference between men and women of nativity, parents’ nativity, and age of arrival categories (from logistic regression).