Table 1.
Summary of descriptive statistics in the pooled sample and based on gender in Arab Americans.
| All |
Men |
Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Gender | ||||||
| Men | 538 | 53.6 | – | – | 538 | 100 |
| Women | 466 | 46.4 | 466 | 100 | – | – |
| Nativity | ||||||
| Foreign born | 732 | 72.4 | 337 | 72.8 | 385 | 71.8 |
| United States born | 279 | 27.6 | 126 | 27.2 | 151 | 28.2 |
| Married | ||||||
| No | 292 | 28.7 | 126 | 27.0 | 164 | 30.5 |
| Yes | 724 | 71.3 | 340 | 73.0 | 374 | 69.5 |
| Employed | ||||||
| No | 431 | 91.7 | 120 | 87.0 | 308 | 93.6 |
| Yes | 39 | 8.3 | 18 | 13.0 | 21 | 6.4 |
| SRH | ||||||
| Excellent/good/fair | 984 | 97.3 | 453 | 98.1 | 519 | 96.6 |
| Poor | 27 | 100.0 | 9 | 1.9 | 18 | 3.4 |
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age | 43.63 | 16.48 | 43.81 | 16.41 | 43.50 | 16.64 |
| Education | 3.95 | 2.03 | 4.28 | 2.12 | 3.63 | 1.88 |
| Family income | 5.36 | 2.64 | 5.53 | 2.63 | 5.15 | 2.64 |
| SRH | 2.33 | 1.10 | 2.22 | 1.06 | 2.44 | 1.12 |
| Discrimination | 0.54 | 1.21 | 0.59 | 1.34 | 0.51 | 1.09 |
| Distress | 8.16 | 4.72 | 7.82 | 4.32 | 8.44 | 5.05 |
SRH, self-rated health.