Table 2. Fair/poor self-rated health and DSM-IV assessed mental disorders for Asians in the U.S. labor force, by ethnicity, nativity and occupational class: 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study.
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Any anxiety disorder in past 12 months |
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| Unweighted sample size | Excellent/very good/good | Fair/poor | Excellent/very good/good | Fair/poor | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||
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| n | % | % | p-value | % | % | p-value | % | % | p-value | % | % | p-value | % | % | p-value | |
| Total | 1530 | 89 | 11 | – | 93 | 7 | – | 90 | 10 | – | 94 | 7 | – | 95 | 5 | – |
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| Chinese | 445 | 83 | 17 | 0.000 | 89 | 11 | 0.003 | 89 | 11 | 0.735 | 93 | 7 | 0.060 | 94 | 6 | 0.729 |
| Filipino | 371 | 92 | 8 | 94 | 6 | 90 | 10 | 94 | 6 | 95 | 5 | |||||
| Vietnamese | 376 | 83 | 17 | 91 | 9 | 93 | 7 | 96 | 4 | 96 | 4 | |||||
| Other Asiana | 338 | 93 | 7 | 97 | 3 | 89 | 11 | 92 | 8 | 94 | 6 | |||||
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| U.S. born | 335 | 91 | 9 | 0.189 | 97 | 3 | 0.009 | 85 | 15 | 0.001 | 26 | 9 | 0.033 | 92 | 8 | 0.028 |
| Immigrant | 1193 | 88 | 12 | 92 | 8 | 92 | 8 | 25 | 6 | 95 | 5 | |||||
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| White-collar | 918 | 91 | 9 | 0.036 | 95 | 5 | 0.052 | 90 | 10 | 0.021 | 93 | 7 | 0.609 | 95 | 5 | 0.042 |
| Blue-collar | 222 | 86 | 14 | 91 | 9 | 95 | 5 | 96 | 4 | 98 | 2 | |||||
| Service | 151 | 85 | 15 | 91 | 9 | 90 | 10 | 94 | 6 | 94 | 6 | |||||
| Unemployed | 145 | 84 | 16 | 92 | 8 | 81 | 19 | 92 | 8 | 87 | 13 | |||||
| Other | 94 | 86 | 14 | 89 | 11 | 94 | 6 | 95 | 5 | 95 | 5 | |||||
The “other Asian” category included those who identified as Japanese, Korean, Asian Indian and other Asian ethnicity
Percentages shown are for weighted sample and account for complex survey design involving stratification, clustering and unequal probability sampling
Differences are statistically significant at p<.05 based on chi-square tests of differences in proportions, p-values <.05 are shown in bold.