Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample of undocumented migrants for the quantitative study and the different comparison groups

Sample and comparison groups	n	Mean age in years	% female	Statistical comparison performed
Quantitative study sample of undocumented migrants	96	37	72 %	-
U.S. American norm sample, complete sample [34]	7069	51	60 %	T-test of differences in means of 8 dimensions of health, see Fig. 1.
U.S. American norm sample, subgroup of participants indicating one or more physical disease [34]	2329	n. a.	n. a.	T-test of differences in means of subjective physical and mental health summary scores, see text.
Representative German sample, subgroup of participants indicating having visited a physician for an acute or chronic disease in the past four weeks [39]	1955	51	56 %	T-test of differences in means of subjective physical and mental health summary score by age-group and gender, see Table 2.
				Generalized linear regression model, see Table 3.

n. a. = not available