Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for Medicaid-Eligible, Citizen Children

	Immigrant Families		Nonimmigrant Families		All Children
	Mean, %	SE, %	Mean, %	SE, %	Mean, %	SE, %
Immigrant family	100.0	0.00	0.0	0.00	26.5	0.09
Naturalized citizen	2.4	0.05	0.1	0.01	0.7	0.01
Native-born citizen	97.6	0.05	99.9	0.01	99.3	0.01
Hispanic	70.4	0.18	15.5	0.09	30.0	0.10
American Indian	1.0	0.04	3.0	0.04	2.5	0.03
Black	8.8	0.12	28.0	0.11	22.9	0.09
Asian	11.7	0.12	1.5	0.03	4.2	0.04
Other race	26.0	0.18	4.8	0.05	10.4	0.07
White	56.2	0.20	68.9	0.12	65.6	0.10
Age 0–2 years	20.6	0.11	18.5	0.06	19.0	0.06
Age 3–5 years	19.8	0.10	17.8	0.06	18.4	0.05
Age 6–8 years	17.4	0.09	16.7	0.05	16.9	0.05
Age 9–11 years	15.4	0.09	16.3	0.05	16.1	0.05
Age 12–15 years	18.5	0.10	20.8	0.06	20.1	0.05
Age 16–17 years	8.4	0.07	9.8	0.05	9.4	0.04
Male	51.2	0.13	51.1	0.08	51.1	0.07
Poverty level
0–100% of poverty	39.7	0.21	40.3	0.12	40.1	0.11
101–200% of poverty	46.5	0.21	43.8	0.12	44.5	0.10
Over 200% of poverty	13.8	0.13	16.0	0.08	15.4	0.07
Household (HH) with:
No high school graduates	29.0	0.19	9.6	0.08	14.7	0.08
One or more HS graduates	71.0	0.19	90.4	0.08	85.3	0.08
Zero workers in HH	6.4	0.11	13.2	0.09	11.4	0.07
One worker in HH	49.7	0.21	53.9	0.12	52.8	0.11
Two or more workers	43.8	0.20	33.0	0.11	35.8	0.10
Child with
Neither parent in HH	1.2	0.04	1.3	0.02	1.3	0.02
Only father in HH	8.0	0.11	9.1	0.07	8.8	0.06
Only mother in HH	24.6	0.17	48.6	0.12	42.2	0.10
Two parents in HH	66.1	0.19	41.1	0.12	47.7	0.10
Year = 2008	30.4	0.19	30.5	0.11	30.5	0.10
Year = 2009	34.3	0.20	34.0	0.11	34.1	0.10
Year = 2010	35.3	0.20	35.5	0.12	35.4	0.10
Number of observations	206,864		654,252		861,116

Note. Estimates weighted with the ACS survey weights.

Source: Authors' estimates from the American Community Surveys (2008, 2009, 2010).