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Published in final edited form as: J Popul Econ. 2012 Sep 1;26(2):507–530. doi: 10.1007/s00148-012-0440-x

Table 5.

Impacts of English in home country on the probability and conditional amount of an activity, ATUS 2004–2008

	Purchasing	Education	Work	Assimilating	Not- assimilating
Variable:
		Probability of the Activity (N=64925)
English	0.0033	0.0091	0.0004	0.0149
	(0.0204)	(0.0095)	(0.0211)	(0.0151)
Official	−0.0800	0.0133	−0.0523	−0.0572
English	(0.0189)	(0.0091)	(0.0196)	(0.0185)
No English	−0.0560	0.0070	0.0149	−0.0122
	(0.0103)	(0.0046)	(0.0108)	(0.0083)
Pseudo-R²	0.0181	0.2741	0.1335	0.0798
		Minutes	Conditional on the Activity
English	9.510	35.238	13.857	17.234	−20.760
	(4.255)	(25.358)	(10.028)	(8.683)	(7.991)
Official	14.821	26.015	18.192	13.021	5.614
English	(4.281)	(20.698)	(9.107)	(8.143)	(7.475)
No English	11.129	32.225	20.626	25.222	−17.438
	(2.153)	(10.385)	(4.706)	(4.136)	(3.846)
Adjusted-R²	0.0230	0.1507	0.0560	0.1095	0.1305
N =	30,442	4,195	25,304	46,730	64,924
		Probability of the Activity (N=37914)
Immigrant	−0.0272	0.0148	−0.0032	−0.0046
	(0.0124)	(0.0056)	(0.0128)	(0.0100)
Mexican	0.0124	−0.0044	−0.0217	−0.0135
immigrant	(0.0274)	(0.0089)	(0.0278)	(0.0225)
Interview	−0.0786	−0.0207	0.0564	−0.0307
Not-English	(0.0200)	(0.0073)	(0.0209)	(0.0163)
Pseudo-R²	0.0188	0.2972	0.1329	0.0830
		Minutes	Conditional on the Activity
Immigrant	5.376	29.075	13.227	17.057	−13.323
	(2.512)	(12.800)	(5.568)	(4.945)	(4.600)
Mexican	2.068	−31.894	11.146	−4.726	8.971
immigrant	(6.501)	(37.691)	(13.427)	(12.042)	(10.852)
Interview	19.030	−35.403	27.143	25.633	−10.064
Not-English	(4.554)	(22.342)	(9.413)	(8.349)	(7.503)
Adjusted-R²	0.0230	0.1420	0.0572	0.1066	0.1314
N =	17,617	2,357	14,924	27,243	37,913