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Published in final edited form as: Popul Res Policy Rev. 2010 Apr 24;30(1):1–24. doi: 10.1007/s11113-010-9183-0

Table 3.

Models of emigration by Mexican origin and gender, age 18–64 (odds ratios)

	Mexican men	Mexican women	Non-Mexican men	Non-Mexican women
Educ. and econ. factors
High school (vs. < HS)	1.13^*	1.01	0.94	1.17^**
Some college (vs. < HS)	0.9	1.08	1.01	1.26^***
College+ (vs. < HS)	1.15	1.21	1.05	1.26^***
Enrolled in school	0.59^***	0.63^**	0.88	0.77^**
Homeowner	0.63^***	0.72^***	0.59^***	0.67^***
Unemployed (vs. employed)	0.99	1.03	1.27^**	1.07
Not in LF (vs. employed)	1.01	0.84^***	1.13^*	1.04
100–150% of poverty (vs. poverty)	0.89	0.92	0.83^**	0.91
150+% of poverty (vs. poverty)	1	0.84^**	0.88^*	0.90^*
Cash welfare or SSI recipient	0.72	0.98	0.61^***	0.70^***
Family and social networks
Mar., sp. absent (vs. mar, sp present)	1.44^**	1.01	1.85^***	1.28^**
Formerly married (vs. mar, sp present)	1.39^**	1.38^***	1.53^***	1.25^***
Never married (vs. mar, sp present)	1.23^***	1.03	1.31^***	1.16^**
# Adults in HH	1.02	1.05	0.98	0.98
Children ages 0–4 (vs. no children)	0.88	0.79^**	1.12^*	0.86^**
Children 5–17 (vs. no children)	0.85^**	0.68^***	0.98	0.85^***
Children 0–4 and 5–17 (vs. no children)	0.88	0.71^***	1.01	0.87^**
In U.S. 5–9 years (vs. 0–4)	0.71^***	0.73^***	0.83^***	0.83^***
In U.S. 10–14 years (vs. 0–4)	0.58^***	0.67^***	0.69^***	0.73^***
In U.S. 15+ years (vs. 0–4)	0.59^***	0.65^***	0.75^***	0.72^***
Citizen of the U.S.	0.93	0.98	0.93	0.97
Health and aging
Age	0.99^***	0.98^***	0.99^**	0.99^***
“Very good/good” health (vs. “excellent”)	0.98	1.03	0.93^*	0.93^*
“Fair/poor” health (vs. “excellent”)	1.04	1.05	0.93	0.94
Covered by health insurance	0.94	1.07	0.97	1.03
Other
1998/1999 (vs. 96/97)	10	0.88	1.05	0.99
2000/2001 (vs. 96/97)	0.98	0.93	1.02	0.89
2002/2003 (vs. 96/97)	1.20^*	1.23^**	1.62^***	1.56^***
2004/2005 (vs. 96/97)	1.43^***	1.51^***	1.77^***	1.78^***
2006/2007 (vs. 96/97)	1.44^***	1.29^**	1.53^***	1.45^***
2008 (vs. 96/97)	1.08	1.21	1.11	0.89
Intercept	0.74	0.79	0.66^*	0.46^***
Number of observations	14,036	12,053	26,348	29,435
−2LL (null model)^a	17,465	15,248	33,630	36,642
−2LL (full model)	17,003	14,898	32,682	35,739
Difference	−462	−350	−948	−903
Proportion of difference accounted for by:
Education and economic factors	0.307	0.241	0.292	0.22
Family and social network factors	0.376	0.447	0.288	0.205
Health and aging factors	0.078	0.166	0.024	0.043
Other/residual factors	0.24	0.145	0.396	0.532

Null model includes only the intercept and the propensity for non-follow-up

p <.05;

^**

p <.01;

^***

p < .001