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Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2014 Jan 13;76(1):24–36. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12073

Table 3. Descriptive Statistics (Weighted Means/Proportions), Mexican Children in Mexico and the United States.

Variable	Children in Mexico, nonmigrant parents (N = 1,013)	U.S.-born children, immigrant parents (N = 650)	U.S.-born children, U.S.-born parents (N = 550)
Transitions in family structure^a
Any transition in nuclear family structure	0.15	0.17	0.24^**
Transition to two married parents (sample: Unmarried, Time 1)	0.23^*	0.16	0.18
Transition to single parent (sample: Partnered, Time 1)	0.03^***	0.08	0.15^***
Any transition in extended family structure	0.11^***	0.28	0.27
Transition to simple household (sample: Extended, Time 1)	0.16^***	0.47	0.42
Transition to extended household (sample: Simple, Time 1)	0.06^***	0.12	0.13
Child characteristics
Age	0.51^***	0.12	0.17^*
Male	0.48^*	0.53	0.52
Mother characteristics
Age	27.79 (6.99)	27.62 (6.39)	25.37 (5.68)
Education
Less than high school	0.80^***	0.51	0.27^***
High school	0.13^***	0.31	0.38
Beyond high school	0.07^***	0.18	0.34^***
Employed	0.23^***	0.35	0.52^***
Family characteristics^b
Number of children	2.52^*** (1.69)	2.20 (1.33)	1.88^*** (1.08)
Household income quartile
First quartile (lowest)	0.26	0.28	0.20^**
Second quartile	0.24^***	0.34	0.21^***
Third quartile	0.25	0.25	0.28
Fourth quartile (highest)	0.27^***	0.12	0.30^***
Rural residence	0.26^***	0.03	0.06^*

Note: Data for children in Mexico come from the Mexican Family Life Study; data for children in the United States come from the birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Standard deviations for continuous variables are presented in parentheses.

Analysis of each dependent variable is restricted to children at risk of the specific transition. Children in cohabiting-couple families are at risk of transitions to both married and single families.

Parental union status and family extension type at Time 1 were also included as predictors in the multivariate analysis. Descriptive information on these variables is shown in Table 1.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001. (Significantly different from U.S.-born children with immigrant parents.)