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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 4. Odds ratios predicting past year return visits (1=returned at least once, 0=did not return) 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 0.70** 0.73* 0.66** 0.58** 0.69 0.26*** 0.20*** 0.20*** 0.21*** 0.32***
 3rd generation 0.43*** 0.44*** 0.39*** 0.32*** 0.48* 0.13*** 0.12*** 0.11*** 0.12*** 0.21*
Latino Origin (ref=Mexico)
 Puerto Rico 0.72 0.61** 0.57** 0.50** 0.49**
 Other Latin Countries 0.76 0.68* 0.62* 0.61* 0.6*
 Cuba 0.29*** 0.23*** 0.20*** 0.19*** 0.18***
Asian Origin (ref=China)
 Other Asia 1.02 0.99 0.96 0.86 0.83
 Philippines 0.72 0.75 0.74 0.64* 0.64*
 Vietnam 0.34*** 0.35*** 0.37*** 0.41*** 0.37***
Age 1.00 1.01 1.00 1.00 0.99 0.99 1.00 1.00
Male 1.14 1.14 1.13 1.19 0.90 0.87 0.86 0.88
Ever Married 1.35 1.33 1.33 1.27 0.74 0.65 0.62 0.58*
Dependents under 18 0.63*** 0.64*** 0.64*** 0.64*** 0.81 0.88 0.92 0.93
Race (ref=white)
 Black 1.54* 1.6* 1.63* 1.62*
 Other 1.06 1.09 1.09 1.11
Education (ref=less than HS)
 High School Graduate 1.19 1.16 1.11 1.01 0.99 0.90
 Some College 1.37* 1.33 1.23 0.87 0.80 0.73
 College and above 1.65* 1.71* 1.56* 1.15 1.00 0.90
Income 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.09* 1.09* 1.09*
English Proficiency 0.98 0.96 1.06* 1.05*
Citizenship 1.57* 1.63* 0.69* 0.72*
Spanish/Asian Language 1.10*** 1.09*
N 2482 2481 2480 2470 2470 1942 1940 1939 1938 1936
-2 Log-Likelihood 2698.0 2654.5 2643.2 2619.8 2599.0 2082.8 2064.7 2049.0 2034.8 2019.4
DF 5 11 15 17 18 5 9 13 15 16
*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001 (two-tailed test)