TABLE 1—

Selected Sociodemographic Characteristics and Descriptive Statistics for Total Sample and by Gender (Weighted): Transnational, Social, and Neighborhood Ties and Smoking Among Latinos, United States, 2002 and 2003

Characteristic	Total Sample (n = 1629)	Immigrant Men (n = 723)	Immigrant Women (n = 906)
Age, y,* mean	38.61	37.44	39.86
Latino subgroup, %
Cuban	6.18	6.22	6.14
Puerto Rican	7.27	7.63	6.88
Mexican	55.78	56.38	55.14
Other Latino	30.77	29.76	31.84
Education, y, %
0–11	54.88	53.74	56.08
12–15	36.14	37.05	35.17
16 and more	8.99	9.21	8.74
Work status,*** %
Employed	63.57	78.84	47.35
Unemployed/OLF	36.43	21.16	52.65
Marital status,** %
Married/cohabitating	70.08	74.59	65.30
W/D/S or never married	29.92	25.41	34.70
Household income,a,** $, mean	37 437	40 406	34 282
Years in the US, %
< 5	16.86	16.30	17.45
≥ 5	83.14	83.70	82.55
Key predictors
Remittances,*** %
Yes	42.39	49.62	34.68
No	57.61	50.38	65.32
No. of returns in the past year, mean (SD)	0.92 (3.69)	0.79 (2.60)	1.04 (4.76)
Family support, mean (SD)	6.18 (2.08)	6.15 (1.88)	6.21 (2.27)
Friend support, mean (SD)	5.09 (2.17)	4.98 (1.96)	5.24 (2.35)
Neighborhood social cohesion, mean (SD)	11.46 (3.38)	11.45 (3.07)	11.45 (3.69)
Outcome
Smoker status,*** %
Nonsmoker	85.51	78.83	92.60
Current smoker	14.49	21.17	7.40

Note. OLF = out of labor force; NS = nonsignificant; W/D/S = widowed/divorced/separated. The Rao-Scott statistic for the Pearson χ² test for contingency tables was computed for categorical variables. The adjusted Wald test of differences was computed for continuous variables.

^aIncome top coded at $200 000 and rounded to nearest whole value.

*P < .05; **P < .01; ***P < .001.