Table 5.

Distribution of selected acculturation-related measures by SASH summary score categories (N = 563)

	SASH score categories*
	<2.0 (134)	2.0-2.9 (68)	3.0-3.9 (58)	4.0-4.9 (146)	5 (162)
Education‡
Grade school or less	4.3	6.0	11.5	37.5	62.7
Some high school	17.1	15.0	23.1	22.9	18.7
High school graduate	20.0	22.4	19.2	25.0	12.7
Some college	45.7	29.9	30.8	11.1	4.0
College graduate	12.9	26.7	15.4	3.5	2.0
Country of origin
United States	54.3	33.8	5.7	2.0	1.3
Mexico	32.9	51.5	66.0	68.5	68.4
Central America	5.7	1.5	7.6	21.3	20.1
Other Latin American	6.1	11.7	16.9	6.9	8.9
Other	1.0	1.5	3.8	1.3	1.3
Years in the United States‡
<10	0.7	1.5	3.8	8.2	18.4
10-20	2.1	0.0	11.3	17.8	27.2
≥20	97.2	98.5	84.9	74.0	19.4
Parents born in the United States‡
Neither	42.2	60.3	90.6	97.9	98.1
One	19.3	14.7	7.6	2.1	2.0
Both	42.2	25.0	1.9	0.0	0.0
Literacy†, ‡
Difficulty with written information	2.4	5.8	5.8	6.0	11.6
Needed help with written information	14.8	20.6	19.0	44.1	57.2
Problems filling out forms	3.3	2.9	1.9	12.3	32.2

^*Scale ranged from 1 (always speaking English) to 5 (always speaking Spanish).

^†Percentage often/always.

^‡P<.001 for differences across SASH categories.