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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2015 Oct 6;25(5):1131–1136. doi: 10.1007/s11136-015-1147-8

Table 1.

Summary Statistics using a 2011 Latino Decisions/ImpreMedia Survey (n=1,105).

Variable Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
Poor Health1 0.35 0.48 0 1
Health Status2 3.10 1.17 1 5
Spanish Regular3 0.25 0.43 0 1
Spanish Mas o Menos4 0.25 0.43 0 1
English5 0.50 0.50 0 1
Education6 3.47 1.55 1 6
Income less than 39k 0.19 0.39 0 1
Income: Missing 0.49 0.50 0 1
Income: 40k–60k 0.13 0.34 0 1
Income: 60k–80k 0.07 0.26 0 1
Income: 80k> 0.12 0.33 0 1
Uninsured 0.20 0.40 0 1
Female 0.59 0.49 0 1
Financial Stability 0.39 0.49 0 1
Age 51.62 17.18 18 98
U.S. Citizen7 0.81 0.39 0 1
Mexican Origin8 0.53 0.50 0 1
1

Poor Health Status is coded 0= good health, very good health, excellent health and 1= poor health, fair health

2

Self-Rated Health is coded 1= poor health, 2=fair health, 3=good health, 4= very good health, 5=excellent health

3

Spanish Language Regular 0=English, Spanish mas o menos, 1=Spanish regular

4

Spanish Language Mas o Menos 0=English, Spanish regular, 1= Spanish mas o menos

5

English Language:, Spanish regular, 0= Spanish regular, Spanish mas o menos,1=English

6

Highest education levels completed, (1=Grade 1–8, 2=Some HS, 3=HS, 4=Some College, 5=College Grad, 6=Post-Grad)

7

Mexican Ancestry: 0=Non Mexican, 1=Mexican

8

U.S. Citizen: 0=non U.S. citizen, 1=U.S. citizen by birthright, naturalization, born in Puerto Rico