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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Migr Rev. 2011 SPRING;45(1):148–173. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2010.00842.x

Table 3. Odds ratios predicting overall frequency of return visits (1=return often/sometime, 0=rarely/never) for Latino and Asian Americans.

Latino Sample Asian Sample
Generation (ref=1st gen) Model1 Model2 Model3 Model4 Model5 Model1 Model2 Model3 Model4 Model5
 2nd generation 0.69** 0.73* 0.63** 0.51*** 0.63* 0.23*** 0.23*** 0.23*** 0.19*** 0.27***
 3rd generation 0.35*** 0.36*** 0.30*** 0.22*** 0.37*** 0.14*** 0.14*** 0.14*** 0.11*** 0.18**
Latino Origin (ref=Mexico)
 Puerto Rico 1.49* 1.33 1.24 1.01 1.00
 Other Latin Countries 1.03 0.97 0.86 0.84 0.84
 Cuba 0.21*** 0.16*** 0.13*** 0.12*** 0.11***
Asian Origin (ref=China)
 Other Asia 1.53 1.50 1.44 1.23 1.19
 Philippines 1.18 1.21 1.20 0.93 0.92
 Vietnam 0.45*** 0.46*** 0.52** 0.56** 0.51**
Age 1.01 1.01 1.00 1.01 0.99 1.00 1.00 1.00
Male 1.33* 1.35* 1.32* 1.42** 1.02 0.96 0.94 0.95
Ever Married 1.19 1.17 1.19 1.12 1.24 1.05 1.04 0.98
Dependents under 18 0.80 0.81 0.80 0.80 0.82 0.93 0.93 0.94
Race (ref=white)
 Black 1.33 1.38 1.41 1.41
 Other 0.99 1.01 1.03 1.06
Education (ref=less than HS)
 High School Graduate 1.49* 1.47* 1.38 1.03 0.90 0.83
 Some College 1.64** 1.63** 1.49* 0.86 0.67* 0.62*
 College and above 2.31*** 2.47** 2.20** 1.39 1.03 0.93
Income 0.98 0.97 0.97 1.13* 1.11* 1.12*
English Proficiency 0.95 0.94 1.12*** 1.11***
Citizenship 2.17*** 2.28*** 0.98 1.01
Spanish/Asian Language 1.13*** 1.08*
N 2496 2495 2494 2484 2484 1945 1943 1942 1941 1939
-2 Log-Likelihood 3207.0 3164.3 3127.5 3081.3 3035.9 2292.4 2284.7 2244.9 2223.1 2209.3
DF 5 11 15 17 18 5 9 13 15 16
*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001 (two-tailed test)