Table 1.

Descriptive statistics, 2008-2010 American Community Survey

	Immigrant Families		Native Families
	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.
Language Spoken at Home
English	49.96%	0.11%	95.66%	0.03%
Spanish	35.40%	0.11%	3.26%	0.02%
Other language	14.64%	0.08%	1.08%	0.01%
Linguistic Isolation	24.96%	0.12%	0.68%	0.01%
Citizenship Category
Native	86.11%	0.08%	99.40%	0.01%
Naturalized	2.20%	0.03%	0.36%	0.01%
Not citizen	11.69%	0.08%	0.25%	0.01%
Hispanic	56.76%	0.14%	11.68%	0.05%
Race
American Indian	0.91%	0.03%	2.34%	0.02%
Black	9.15%	0.08%	18.94%	0.06%
Asian	18.80%	0.10%	1.87%	0.02%
Other Race	20.66%	0.12%	3.35%	0.03%
White	55.77%	0.14%	78.67%	0.06%
Parent Nativity
2 parent HH, 2 native	3.62%	0.05%	64.85%	0.07%
2 parent HH, 1 native	25.21%	0.11%	0.00%	n/a
2 parent HH, 0 native	49.55%	0.14%	0.00%	n/a
1 parent HH, 1 native	1.68%	0.03%	32.07%	0.07%
1 parent HH, 0 native	19.95%	0.11%	0.00%	n/a
World Area of Birth
United States	84.58%	0.08%	98.96%	0.01%
Latin America	8.50%	0.06%	0.29%	0.01%
Asia	3.99%	0.04%	0.33%	0.01%
Europe	1.64%	0.03%	0.36%	0.01%
Africa	0.87%	0.03%	0.04%	0.00%
Other North America	0.39%	0.01%	0.02%	0.00%
Male	51.31%	0.09%	51.18%	0.05%
Poverty category
100% and below	24.50%	0.13%	19.71%	0.06%
101%-200	28.00%	0.13%	19.84%	0.06%
201%-300	16.94%	0.10%	17.61%	0.05%
301%-400	9.96%	0.08%	13.82%	0.05%
GT 400%	20.61%	0.10%	29.02%	0.06%
Highest Education in HH
Less Than High School	17.12%	0.12%	4.63%	0.04%
High School Graduate	28.19%	0.13%	26.86%	0.07%
Some College	22.22%	0.12%	31.42%	0.07%
College Graduate	32.46%	0.12%	37.10%	0.07%
Workers in HH
Zero workers	7.65%	0.08%	12.81%	0.05%
One worker	45.49%	0.14%	44.27%	0.07%
Two or more workers	46.87%	0.14%	42.92%	0.07%
Child's Age	8.17	0.01	8.67	0.01
Year
2008	32.51%	0.13%	33.43%	0.06%
2009	33.61%	0.13%	33.43%	0.06%
2010	33.88%	0.13%	33.14%	0.06%
Number of Observations	447,531		1,631,607

Source: Author's calculations from the 2008-2010 American Community Survey