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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2008 Apr;59(4):408–413. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.59.4.408

Table 1.

Community-level determinants to predict utilization of mental health services in two Latino communities in Los Angeles County

Recent immigrant
community census
tracts (N=413)
Established immigrant
community census
tracts (N=204)


Determinant M SD M SD
Foreign-born noncitizen residents (%) 30.0 15.0 43.4 8.9
Spanish speakers (%) 23.3 16.0 45.3 11.0
Less than 9th grade education (%) 23.5 16.3 49.9 11.4
Per capita income $17,151 $9,898 $8,257 $3,289