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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2012 May;49(2):651–675. doi: 10.1007/s13524-012-0090-3

Table 6.

Odds Ratios of Endogamous versus Exogamous Marriages by Educational Combination for Married Couples One of Whom is Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, or Puerto Rican, 2000 PUMS

Chinese Filipino Mexican Puerto Rican




Race/Ethnicity/Age-at-Arrival Pairing Both HS or
less or HS
or less/at
least some
college
(1)
Both at
least some
college
(2)
(3) Both HS or
less or HS
or less/at
least some
college
(4)
Both at
least some
college
(5)
(6) Both HS or
less or HS
or less/at
least some
college
(7)
Both at
least some
college
(8)
(9) Both HS or
less or HS
or less/at
least some
college
(10)
Both at
least some
college
(11)
(12)
Immigrants arriving at ages 14–19/ Whites 3247.6 160.6 *** 104.9 84.2 119.3 92.5 ** 121.2 57.0 ***
Immigrants arriving at ages 6–13/ Whites 426.1 81.1 *** 85.9 47.3 *** 105.2 47.2 *** 86.7 44.1 ***
Immigrants arriving at ages 0–5/ Whites 129.1 31.3 *** 28.2 18.3 *** 48.9 30.2 *** 54.1 30.0 ***
US born / Whites 75.9 21.5 *** 21.5 13.3 *** 13.2 9.1 *** 21.0 19.0 *
Immigrants arriving at ages 14–19/ Other pan-ethnics 55.8 23.2 ** 84.6 39.5 17.4 30.5 *** 25.7 18.1 *
Immigrants arriving at ages 6–13/ Other pan-ethnics 32.0 9.7 *** 31.8 23.5 16.5 13.7 20.9 13.8 *
Immigrants arriving at ages 0–5/ Other pan-ethnics 146.0 13.4 ** 81.7 15.2 ** 12.9 12.9 22.1 14.1 *
US born / Pan-ethnics 16.7 7.9 *** 10.0 11.6 14.8 10.5 *** 16.5 8.9 ***
Immigrants arriving at ages 14–19/ Other racial minorities 760.0 277.0 * 107.4 95.6 293.8 194.9 149.1 157.1
Immigrants arriving at ages 6–13 / Other racial minorities 2475.6 140.2 *** 65.4 39.6 ** 201.1 45.4 *** 131.7 59.6 *
Immigrants arriving at ages 0–5 / Other racial minorities 140.7 62.2 38.2 23.4 ** 102.9 55.4 *** 62.2 48.1
US born / Other racial minorities 104.8 55.5 * 29.0 19.5 *** 36.4 28.3 *** 23.2 19.2 **
Immigrants arriving at ages 14–19/ US born 38.3 6.9 ** 14.9 5.3 ** 5.3 7.1 *** 2.6 3.9 **
Immigrants arriving at ages 6–13 / US born 5.7 2.5 ** 5.5 3.4 3.7 3.1 ** 2.4 4.3 ***
Immigrants arriving at ages 0–5 / US born -- 0.9 2.8 0.6 2.1 0.5 1.5 0.4 **
Immigrants arriving at ages 14–19/ Immigrants arriving at ages 6–13 1.9 1.8 1.9 1.9 1.7 2.5 *** 1.5 2.2
Immigrants arriving at ages 14–19/ Immigrants arriving at ages 0–5 4.1 2.6 4.9 5.6 2.6 5.2 *** 1.6 5.0 ***
Immigrants arriving at ages 6–13 / Immigrants arriving at ages 0–5 3.8 2.2 2.0 2.2 1.7 1.9 1.3 4.1 **

Notes: 1) Odds ratios for Columns (1), (4), (7), and (10) are significantly different from 1 at .01, except underlined regular, p< .05, underlined italic, p<.10, and italic, insignificant at .1.

2) Columns (3), (6), (9), and (12) present test results between the two education categories:

*

p<.1,

**

p<.05, and

***

p<.01