Table 4. Alternative maternal nativity and acculturation specifications for logistic regression models predicting obesity (BMI% ≥ 95) among kindergarteners using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, 1998 kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K) and 2001 birth cohort (ECLS-B): Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI)a.
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| HEP second gen. | 0.65 | (0.43, 0.99) | 0.62 | (0.41, 0.94) | 0.95 | (0.61, 1.47) | 0.86 | (0.55, 1.35) | 0.75 | (0.56, 1.01) | 0.71 | (0.53, 0.95) |
| Third-plus gen. | 0.71 | (0.53, 0.96) | 0.61 | (0.45, 0.83) | 0.83 | (0.53, 1.31) | 0.70 | (0.44, 1.12) | 0.72 | (0.58, 0.90) | 0.62 | (0.50, 0.78) |
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| Generation 1.5 | 0.99 | (0.69, 1.43) | 0.90 | (0.62, 1.29) | 1.00 | (0.60, 1.68) | 0.91 | (0.54, 1.52) | 0.97 | (0.72, 1.32) | 0.87 | (0.64, 1.17) |
| Third-plus gen. | 0.80 | (0.58, 1.09) | 0.67 | (0.48, 0.92) | 0.86 | (0.58, 1.28) | 0.74 | (0.50, 1.11) | 0.81 | (0.64, 1.01) | 0.66 | (0.52, 0.82) |
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| Native-born | 0.80 | (0.60, 1.05) | 0.69 | (0.52, 0.92) | 0.86 | (0.62, 1.20) | 0.77 | (0.55, 1.07) | 0.81 | (0.69, 0.96) | 0.68 | (0.56, 0.83) |
| Observationsd | 3,100 | 14,500 | 17,600 | |||||||||
Notes: Analyses are weighted using normalized sample weights; confidence interval estimates adjust for stratification and clustering in the sample designs. Those 95% confidence intervals that do not span 1.00 imply that the odds ratio is statistically significantly different from 1 at p < .05.
All models control for race/ethnicity, mother's education, log of household income, mother's marital status, mother's age at birth, child's age, gender, birth weight, number of siblings, and singleton status.
Model 2 adds mother's pre-pregnancy BMI, which is calculated from reported height and weight for ECLS-B and is imputed for ECLS-K.
Generation 1.0 is defined as arriving in the United States at age 13 or older, and generation 1.5 is defined as arriving in the United States prior to age 13.
All observations are rounded to comply with NCES disclosure guidelines.