Table 1.

Unweighted proportions of sociodemographic characteristics across Hispanic national groups

	Puerto Rican	Cuban American	Mexican American	South/Central American
	(n= 1327 – 1335)	(n= 1323 – 1327)	(n= 1279 – 1288)	(n= 1269 – 1274)
Gender
Male	51.5	49.9	49.7	50.0
Female	48.5	50.1	50.3	50.0
Age
18–29	27.2	11.3	32.5	26.3
30–39	20.9	15.5	31.3	23.7
40–49	19.3	19.1	20.0	22.6
50+	32.6	54.0	16.2	27.4
Education
< High School	53.1	38.4	53.8	36.9
HS diploma/GED	28.3	27.2	25.6	28.3
Technical/vocational   school	1.9	8.4	4.5	4.7
Some college	12.7	12.4	10.6	18.4
College   graduate/professional   school	4.0	13.6	5.5	11.6
Employment status
Full/part time employed	39.7	50.9	59.6	66.1
Unemployed: temp illness/unemployed looking/ not looking for work/in school	17.6	7.6	12.1	13.7
Retired/Homemaker	20.0	29.5	22.7	13.7
Disabled/never   worked/other	22.7	12.0	5.6	6.5
Marital Status
Married/Living with spouse/someone	35.8	51.2	57.4	46.4
Married not living   with spouse/Legally separated/divorced/Widowed	28.0	33.1	17.8	27.1
Never married/Never lived with someone	36.2	15.7	24.8	26.5
Income
<20 K	68.1	59.8	57.5	54.3
20–40K	21.8	25.8	28.3	30.2
40–60K	5.1	8.7	7.8	7.8
60+K	5.0	5.7	6.4	7.6
Place of birth
U.S.-Born	41.0	7.6	27.3	9.9
Foreign-Born	59.0	92.4	72.7	90.1