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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2012 Mar 13;75(12):2085–2098. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.01.035

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.

Self-rated physical health Self-rated mental health Any mental
disorder in past 12
months
Any anxiety
disorder in past 12
months
Any depression in
past 12 months






Unweighted sample size Excellent/very good/good Fair/poor Excellent/very good/good Fair/poor No Yes No Yes No Yes

















n % % p-value % % p-value % % p-value % % p-value % % p-value
Total 1530 89 11 93 7 90 10 94 7 95 5
Ethnicity
 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
Nativity
 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
Occupational class
 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
a

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.