Table 3.
Language Outcomes | Family and Marital Outcomes | |||||||
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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.
Proficiency scale has a minimum of zero and a maximum of 3.