Table 3.

Odds of Reporting Ever Smoking among Chinese by Immigration Status (United States, 1998–2004; Taiwan, 2001)

	Model 4	Model 5	Model 6
	Chinese Immigrant	All Chinese in US	All Chinese
	OR CI (95)	OR CI (95)	OR CI (95)
Immigrant Status
Immigrant in US < 5 years	1.00	1.00	1.00
Immigrant in US 5–14 Years	1.24 (0.73 – 2.09)	1.23 (0.74 – 2.03)	1.22 (0.71 – 2.12)
Immigrant in US >15 Years	1.13 (0.69 – 1.84)	1.08 (0.68 – 1.72)	1.24 (0.75 – 2.03)
US-born Chinese		1.63 (0.99 – 2.67)	1.67 (0.97 – 2.87)
Chinese living in Taiwan			1.61 (1.05 – 2.47) *
Age
18–34 Years old	1.00	1.00	1.00
35–49 years old	1.07 (0.64 – 1.81)	1.42 (0.92 – 2.18)	1.30 (1.14 – 1.49) ***
60–64 years old	1.48 (0.76 – 2.86)	1.77 (1.02 – 3.06) *	1.04 (0.88 – 1.22)
65+ years old	1.66 (0.81 – 3.42)	2.28 (1.28 – 4.05) **	1.11 (0.93 – 1.32)
Gender
Female	1.00	1.00	1.00
male	7.86 (5.06 – 12.19) ***	5.92 (4.18 – 8.39) ***	19.25 (16.89 – 21.94) ***
Education
Not College	1.00	1.00	1.00
College	0.58 (0.39 – 0.86) **	0.66 (0.49 – 0.90) **	0.37 (0.34 – 0.42) ***
Marital Status
Not Married	1.00	1.00	1.00
Married	0.95 (0.62 – 1.47)	0.87 (0.60 – 1.27)	0.94 (0.83 – 1.06)
Insurance Status
Non-Insured	1.00	1.00	1.00
Insured	0.9 (0.53 – 1.53)	0.78 (0.47 – 1.32)	1.03 (0.58 – 1.85)
Observations	964	1217	16765

95% confidence intervals in parentheses

^**significant at < 0.05;

^***significant at < 0.01