Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of National Health Interview Survey sample by Hispanic subgroup 1990–2009.

	US-born
	Non-Hispanic white	Mexican	Puerto Rican	Cuban	Dominican	Central/South American	other Hispanic
n	726,805	41,534	6453	1565	283	1093	9793
Mean Age	49.8	43.8	38.5	39.3	33.7	36.2	45.1
Mean Family Size	2.7	3.4	3.3	3.0	3.3	3.2	2.9
Male %	47.4	46.0	44.3	47.8	42.1	48.0	45.0
Education (%)
12 years or less	49.2	65.2	55.5	36.3	40.3	32.8	55.3
13 years or more	50.8	34.8	44.5	63.7	59.7	67.3	44.7
Poverty Status (%)
Below 100% of Poverty	7.0	18.4	18.8	8.0	16.6	7.8	15.3
100–399%	55.5	60.2	54.4	50.4	54.8	50.2	59.5
400% and above	37.5	21.4	26.8	41.7	28.6	42.0	25.2
Employment Status (%)
Employed	64.7	66.5	68.9	77.1	73.5	79.4	64.8
Unemployed	2.0	3.5	5.4	3.6	5.0	4.4	3.4
Not in Labor Force	33.3	30.0	25.7	19.4	21.6	16.2	31.9
Marital Status (%)
Married	70.0	61.7	53.3	57.7	44.2	49.2	60.0
Divorced	11.7	16.0	16.9	15.0	15.2	13.5	17.2
Widowed	8.1	5.1	2.3	4.2	0.4	2.1	6.2
Never Married	10.3	17.2	27.5	23.2	40.3	35.2	16.6
	Foreign-born
		Mexican	Puerto Rican	Cuban	Dominican	Central/South American	other Hispanic
n		56,786	9049	8570	2522	14,428	11,234
Mean Age		41.1	48.8	54.4	45.0	42.9	43.0
Mean Family Size		4.3	3.1	3.0	3.5	3.5	3.6
Male %		50.8	41.9	46.3	36.6	46.5	42.9
Education (%)
12 years or less		87.2	74.0	63.8	69.7	64.7	67.3
13 years or more		12.8	26.0	36.2	30.3	35.4	32.7
Poverty Status (%)
Below 100% of Poverty		33.6	29.9	17.2	32.4	18.8	25.3
100–399%		59.8	54.9	62.1	56.0	63.0	62.6
400% and above		6.7	15.2	20.7	11.6	18.2	12.2
Employment Status (%)
Employed		64.7	49.1	55.7	61.1	72.3	65.7
Unemployed		3.7	2.9	2.7	4.5	4.3	3.9
Not in Labor Force		31.6	48.0	41.6	34.4	23.4	30.5
Marital Status (%)
Married		74.6	55.5	66.5	53.5	64.7	66.0
Divorced		8.8	19.8	15.2	25.0	13.3	15.4
Widowed		3.7	7.8	9.5	5.0	3.6	4.5
Never Married		12.9	16.9	8.8	16.6	18.4	14.2

a Fewer than 10 deaths occurred for US-born Dominicans. Number not shown due to disclosure risk.

* Different from US-born non-Hispanic whites at p<0.05