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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 2012 Sep 1;643(1):134–159. doi: 10.1177/0002716212442665

Table 3.

Summary Statistics for Adult Social Outcomes by Region of Origin: Men and Women (Means or Percentages)

Language Outcomes Family and Marital Outcomes
Sample
Size
English
Language
Proficiencya
High English
Proficiency (%)
Number of Own
Children in
Household
Married
(%)
Spouses Speak
English at
Home (%)
Immigrant
Spouse (%)
Same
Country
Spouse (%)
1. Women
 Canada 3,178 2.97 97.4 1.09 67.8 79.6 12.5 7.4
 U.K., Australia,
  New Zealand
1,941 2.98 98.8 1.09 67.7 88.4 17.1 7.1
 Rest of Europe 10,680 2.84 86.9 1.18 72.5 34.3 43.7 34.3
 Puerto Rico 5,997 2.58 69.8 1.32 53.2 11.1 66.5 53.3
 Mexico 15,643 2.04 43.8 2.21 72.3 3.6 78.3 73.8
 Rest of Latin America 11,187 2.61 72.5 1.51 62.2 10.3 69.0 46.0
2. Men
 Canada 2,610 2.96 97.3 1.02 68.4 79.2 14.7 8.0
 U.K., Australia,
  New Zealand
1,655 2.98 98.8 0.95 64.4 85.5 18.2 8.5
 Rest of Europe 9,755 2.85 87.3 1.15 72.8 41.9 34.8 24.8
 Puerto Rico 5,187 2.62 71.5 1.09 61.4 11.7 56.7 42.8
 Mexico 19,269 2.08 41.0 2.05 78.8 3.9 76.6 73.0
 Rest of Latin America 9,340 2.67 75.4 1.28 67.5 11.6 65.9 44.5

SOURCE: Authors’ calculations based on extracts from the 5 percent file of the 2000 U.S. Census as described in the text.

NOTE: Sample size is the unweighted sample count. Derivations in the other columns are based on weighted sample counts.

a

Proficiency scale has a minimum of zero and a maximum of 3.