Table 1.
Sample characteristics by English language use for older Mexican Americans 65+ in 1993 (n = 2728)
| English language use |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Low/medium | Medium | High | F or χ2 (P-value) | |
| Demographics | |||||
| Age (mean, ± SE) | 73.8 (.35) | 74.4 (.36) | 73.5 (.36) | 72.6 (.31) | |
| Education (mean, ± SE) | 2.4 (.11) | 3.2 (.15) | 5.1 (.18) | 8.1 (.22) | |
| Marital Status | |||||
| Married | 363 (21.7) | 348 (21.0) | 377 (23.6) | 445 (33.7) | 22.2 (.000) |
| Unmarried | 311 (21.9) | 342 (29.2) | 271 (22.1) | 271 (26.7) | |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 417 (22.9) | 409 (26.0) | 341 (22.2) | 391 (28.9) | 14.7 (.002) |
| Male | 257 (20.4) | 281 (22.9) | 307 (24.0) | 325 (32.8) | |
| Socioeconomic indicators | |||||
| Income | |||||
| 0–$4999 | 336 (34.9) | 288 (26.2) | 212 (22.6) | 177 (16.4) | 236.9 (.000) |
| $5000–$9999 | 304 (19.3) | 337 (26.4) | 332 (22.2) | 322 (32.1) | |
| $10000+ | 34 (9.5) | 65 (15.5) | 104 (23.5) | 217 (51.5) | |
| Occupation | |||||
| Professional | 13(5.1) | 21 (7.1) | 48 (17.6) | 166 (70.2) | 463.2 (.000) |
| Services | 71 (13.3) | 110 (27.4) | 105 (26.0) | 122 (33.4) | |
| Farming | 203 (34.4) | 150 (26.0) | 112 (22.1) | 69 (17.5) | |
| Craft/repair | 34 (12.6) | 48 (13.9) | 88 (30.2) | 99 (43.4) | |
| Laborer | 70 (11.6) | 149 (26.6) | 130 (24.9) | 137 (36.9) | |
| Never worked/homemaker | 283 (32.8) | 212 (30.4) | 165 (19.8) | 123 (16.9) | |
| Nativity | |||||
| US Born | (9.9) 204 | (16.4) 281 | (24.8) 428 | (48.9) 627 | 514.8 (.000) |
| Immigrant | (34.4) 477 | (33.3) 434 | (21.1) 251 | (11.2) 119 | |
| Health indicators | |||||
| Ever smoked (yes = 1) | 264 (20.4) | 295 (24.4) | 241 (18.8) | 334 (36.4) | 14.7 (.002) |
| Diabetes | 152 (20.1) | 180 (23.8) | 148 (22.9) | 192 (33.7) | 5.3 (.150) |
| Hypertension | 253 (20.1) | 326 (26.7) | 261 (22.6) | 321 (30.6) | 16.0 (.001) |
| Any ADL limitation | 97 (25.6) | 124 (31.9) | 75 (16.8) | 72 (25.8) | 21.6 (.000) |
Note: Represented as n (%) unless otherwise specified
SE standard error