Table 1.
Characteristics of children (5–18 years) in immigrant families, by parental immigrant subgroup: New Immigrant Survey 2003
| Parental subgroup
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legalizeda | Mixed-statusb | Refugee | Temp. Res.c | Undoc.d | |
| Number | 504 | 419 | 290 | 787 | 170 |
| Child’s characteristics | |||||
| Age†, year (SD) | 11.1 (3.5) | 10.4 (3.8) | 11.5 (3.8) | 10.9 (3.7) | 11.0 (3.8) |
| Sex, % female | 44.1 | 49.6 | 45.5 | 52.2 | 51.8 |
| Region of birth†, % | |||||
| Asia | 0.2 | 9.8 | 13.1 | 28.3 | 2.4 |
| Latin America/Caribbean | 14.3 | 20.3 | 12.8 | 14.5 | 33.3 |
| Europe/Central Asia | 0 | 4.1 | 36.6 | 11.1 | 0 |
| United States | 85.3 | 61.5 | 21.0 | 33.3 | 64.3 |
| Other | 0.2 | 4.3 | 16.6 | 12.9 | 0 |
| Health insurance†, % private | 30.0 | 42.5 | 30.3 | 50.4 | 20.0 |
| Parents’ characteristics | |||||
| Region of birth†, % | |||||
| Asia | 46.1 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 38.7 | 2.9 |
| Latin America/Caribbean | 22.4 | 65.6 | 23.7 | 35.8 | 97.1 |
| Europe/Central Asia | 23.1 | 8.9 | 39.0 | 13.4 | 0 |
| Other | 8.4 | 9.9 | 22.0 | 12.1 | 0 |
| Educational attainment†, % | |||||
| <High school | 72.3 | 39.4 | 37.9 | 27.8 | 71.2 |
| High school | 20.1 | 27.5 | 31.6 | 10.5 | 24.0 |
| College | 7.2 | 20.5 | 15.3 | 28.0 | 2.9 |
| Postgraduate | 0.3 | 12.6 | 15.3 | 33.8 | 1.9 |
| Employment status, % unemployed | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.4 | 5.7 | 10.2 |
| Limited English proficiency†e, % | 64.8 | 51.6 | 55.8 | 36.0 | 75.0 |
| Household income ≤ $18,400, % | 17.3 | 16.1 | 23.2 | 16.1 | 23.1 |
| Time in the US†, year (SD) | 15.7 (3.7) | 7.9 (6.5) | 6.6 (3.9) | 8.1 (5.4) | 12.2 (6.2) |
| State of residence (eligible)†f, % | 94.3 | 75.7 | 66.6 | 79.8 | 83.5 |
P < 0.05,
P <0.001
Legalized: children in families with at least one parent who had been undocumented prior to receiving legal status through an immigration regularization program in the 1990s
Mixed-status: children in families with one US-citizen parent and one non-citizen parent
Temporary Resident: children in families with at least one parent who had been a temporary resident in the US prior to becoming LPR
Undocumented: children whose parent or parents had been undocumented prior to becoming LPR
Respondents who reported speaking English “not well” or “not at all”
A dichotomous variable was created to reflect whether the respondent was residing in a state that had extended public health insurance eligibility to all age- and income-eligible LPRs by 2002