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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jun 28;75(8):1523–1530. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.05.031

Table 2.

Health and economic deprivation among children born to Hispanic mothers by nativity and Hispanic origin. Fragile families data.

All Hispanic (N = 1084) Mother’s nativity
Mother’s country of origin
Foreign-born (n = 456) U.S.-born (n = 628) Mexican (n = 632) Non-Mexican (n = 452)
MRCH status at age 5
 % in excellent health 57 47 64 59 54
 % in very good health 27 25 28 24 30
 % in good/fair/poor health 16 28 8 17 16
Change in MRCH status age 15
 % declined in health 21 24 19 19 24
 % improved in health 22 24 20 24 20
 % stable good/fair/poor health 6 13 2 7 5
 % stable very good/excellent health 51 39 59 50 51
Early childhood economic deprivationa
 Mean waves below poverty line (0–4) 1.91 2.14 1.73 2.04 1.73
  % sample below poverty line 3+ waves 37 45 32 40 33
 Mean waves received free food (0–3) 0.27 0.25 0.30 0.28 0.27
  % sample ever received free food 21 18 23 22 20
 Mean waves housing insecure (0–3) 0.53 0.42 0.61 0.52 0.55
  % sample housing insecure 2 + waves 13 9 16 12 14
 Mean waves utilities insecure (0–3) 1.07 0.84 1.24 1.08 1.07
  % sample utilities insecure 2+ waves 33 25 39 33 33
 Mean waves no health insurance (0–4) 1.15 1.52 0.93 1.34 0.95
  % sample no health insurance 2+ waves 34 47 26 39 28

Data not weighted.

a

Continuous variable means statistically different (p < 0.05) between foreign and U.S.-born Hispanic mothers except free food. Means statistically different between Mexican and non-Mexican origin mothers only for waves uninsured and waves in poverty.