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 1–5
% 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.

^aContinuous 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.