Table 1.
Characteristics of the sample by nativity and language used in data collection.
| U.S-born | Foreign-born (n=915)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | English (n=2199) |
English (n=386) |
Spanish (n=282) |
Chinese (n=247) |
Total (n=3114) |
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| Mean age in years (SD) | 58.7 | (8.4) | 56.4 | (7.6) | 56.9 | (7.5) | 57.1 | (7.1) | 58.1 | (8.2) |
| Male, n (%) | 1146 | (52.1%) | 196 | (50.8%) | 158 | (56.0%) | 141 | (57.1%) | 1641 | (52.7%) |
| Age of migration, ≥21 years old, n (%) | -- | ( -- ) | 200 | (63.5%) | 206 | (83.4%) | 220 | (96.1%) | 626 | (79.1%) |
| Mean years spent in the US (SD) | -- | ( -- ) | 31.3 | (12.6) | 23.6 | (12.2) | 18.1 | (10.2) | 27.1 | (15.1) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
| White, n (%) | 1229 | (55.9%) | 83 | (21.5%) | 1 | (0.4%) | 0 | (0.0%) | 1313 | (42.2%) |
| Black, n (%) | 748 | (34.0%) | 103 | (26.7%) | 0 | (0.0%) | 0 | (0.0%) | 851 | (27.3%) |
| Hispanic, n (%) | 208 | (9.5%) | 126 | (32.6%) | 281 | (99.6%) | 0 | (0.0%) | 615 | (19.7%) |
| Chinese, n (%) | 14 | (0.6%) | 74 | (19.2%) | 0 | (0.0%) | 247 | (100.0%) | 335 | (10.8%) |
| Education | ||||||||||
| <12 years, n (%) | 86 | (3.9%) | 30 | (7.8%) | 152 | (53.9%) | 45 | (18.2%) | 313 | (10.1%) |
| 12 years or high school equivalent, n (%) | 302 | (13.7%) | 51 | (13.2%) | 47 | (16.7%) | 49 | (19.8%) | 449 | (14.4%) |
| >12 years, n (%) | 1811 | (82.4%) | 305 | (79.0%) | 83 | (29.4%) | 153 | (61.9%) | 2352 | (75.5%) |
| Occupation | ||||||||||
| Management/Professional, n (%) | 1169 | (54.2%) | 193 | (50.9%) | 32 | (11.9%) | 99 | (41.6%) | 1493 | (49.1%) |
| Sales/Office, n (%) | 488 | (22.6%) | 70 | (18.5%) | 33 | (12.3%) | 50 | (21.0%) | 641 | (21.1%) |
| Service, n (%) | 223 | (10.3%) | 71 | (18.7%) | 119 | (44.4%) | 42 | (17.6%) | 455) | (15.0% |
| Blue-collar, n (%) | 277 | (12.8%) | 45 | (11.9%) | 84 | (31.3%) | 47 | (19.7%) | 453 | (14.9%) |
| Job moderately or very stressful, n (%) | 407 | (18.6%) | 74 | (19.2%) | 22 | (7.8%) | 25 | (10.1%) | 528 | (17.0%) |
| Self-rated health, Fair/poor, n (%) | 141 | (6.4%) | 38 | (9.8%) | 49 | (17.4%) | 77 | (31.2%) | 305 | (9.8%) |
a
Foreign-born includes those who were born in Puerto Rico.