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. 2014 Jun 3;41(3):425–447. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2014.921567

Table 3. Odds ratios from logistic regressions of civic and political participation youth organizing alumni from immigrant families, California Young Adult Study.

  Volunteered Community work Online voice Protested Registered to vote
Model 1
Family background
Politically engaged parent 1.286 1.046 1.279 0.914 0.920
  (0.376) (0.281) (0.324) (0.231) (0.295)
College-educated parent 1.496 0.582 1.010 0.867 0.719
  (0.654) (0.211) (0.362) (0.314) (0.302)
Low-income 1.974 1.198 1.419 3.149*** 1.210
  (0.818) (0.491) (0.561) (1.371) (0.534)
Model 2
Family background
Politically engaged parent 1.244 1.015 1.232 0.862 0.944
  (0.368) (0.280) (0.322) (0.225) (0.346)
College-educated parent 1.488 0.590 0.948 0.917 0.462
  (0.661) (0.221) (0.351) (0.346) (0.232)
Low-income 1.792 1.086 1.268 2.860** 1.044
  (0.776) (0.468) (0.522) (1.297) (0.544)
Youth characteristics
Race/ethnicity (ref. Latino)
Asian-Pacific Islander 0.832 0.909 1.264 0.795 0.592
  (0.246) (0.257) (0.342) (0.217) (0.213)
Othera 2.484 1.934 1.661 1.700 1.346
  (1.619) (1.065) (0.773) (0.822) (0.865)
Male 1.102 1.137 0.957 1.594* 0.498**
  (0.298) (0.292) (0.230) (0.390) (0.170)
Age 1.061 1.096 1.128* 0.959 1.428***
  (0.075) (0.071) (0.070) (0.059) (0.163)
Non-citizen 1.251 1.198 2.198** 1.989**  
  (0.426) (0.387) (0.672) (0.606)  
College enrollment (ref. no college)
Community college 0.853 0.475 0.947 0.994 3.582***
  (0.312) (0.174) (0.316) (0.337) (1.626)
Four-year college 1.116 0.376*** 0.995 0.787 4.270****
  (0.409) (0.135) (0.328) (0.261) (1.900)
Unweighted sample size 1180 1180 1180 1180 1040
a

Includes Non-Hispanic Blacks.

Two-tailed tests: * p ≤ .10, **p ≤ .05, ***p ≤ .01, ****p ≤ .001