Table 3.
Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals associated with immigration factors in relation to transition to sexual interscourse before age 18, contraceptive and condom use at first sex, consistent contraceptive and condom use at age 17, live birth before age 20, and multiple live birthsa, among the full Hispanic sample, weighted, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997–2003
| Transition to sexual intercourse before age 18 |
Contraceptive use at first sex |
Condom use at first sex |
Consistent contraceptive use at age 17 |
Consistent condom use at age 17 |
Transition to a live birth before age 20 |
Multiple live births |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation status | |||||||
| First generation | .80 (.66–.98)* | .72 (.46–1.14) | 1.04 (.68–1.58) | .32 (.17–.60)*** | .65 (.32–1.31) | .96 (.61–1.51) | 1.24 (.59–2.57) |
| Second generation | .94 (.80–1.10) | .95 (.65–1.39) | 1.12 (.80–1.58) | .50 (.31–.80)** | .79 (.50–1.24) | 1.12 (.76–1.66) | 1.20 (.65–2.19) |
| Third generaton | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) |
| Chi-square/ F statistic (DF)b | 62.31 (16)*** | 2.91 (16)*** | 3.66 (16)*** | 2.10 (16)** | 2.15 (16)** | 112.41 (16)*** | 5.84 (16)*** |
| Language status | |||||||
| Youth interview conducted in Spanishc |
.63 (.44–.91)* | .71 (.32–1.55) | .84 (.40–1.77) | .39 (.21–.73)** | .89 (.46–1.70) | .55 (.22–1.36) | 1.44 (.46–4.53) |
| Parent interview conducted in Spanish |
.87 (.70–1.08) | .80 (.47–1.34) | 1.16 (.72–1.86) | – | – | .96 (.60–1.55) | .97 (.43–2.20) |
| Responding parent speaks a second language at home |
.93 (.79–1.09) | .64 (.43–.94)* | .96 (.68–1.34) | .55 (.34–.87)* | 1.12 (.70–1.77) | .91 (.62–1.34) | 1.61 (.88–2.94) |
| Youth and responding parent only speak English |
(1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) |
| Chi-square/ F statistic (DF)b | 61.79 (16)*** | 2.94 (16)*** | 3.47 (16)*** | 1.94 (15)* | 2.14 (15)** | 107.77 (16)*** | 6.00 (16)*** |
| Country of origin | |||||||
| Mexico | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) |
| Puerto Rico | 1.35 *(1.02–1.79) | .85 (.42–1.71) | 1.09 (.57–2.09) | 1.25 (.53–2.99) | .96 (.43–2.15) | .73 (.32–1.66) | .18 (.06–.54)** |
| Cuba | 0.86 (.57–1.30) | 1.11 (.50–2.49) | 1.21 (.59–2.47) | – | – | .34 (.10–1.19) | .14 (.04–.48)** |
| Central/South America | 1.18 (.95–1.47) | .81 (.49–1.32) | 1.11 (.68–1.81) | – | – | .81 (.47–1.40) | .57 (.23–1.39) |
| Otherd | 1.29 (1.08–1.55)** | 1.12 (.73–1.71) | 1.03 (.71–1.49) | 1.48 (.94–2.34) | 1.00 (.62–1.61) | .94 (.64–1.38) | .31 (.15–.64)** |
| Chi-square/ F statistic (DF)b | 73.20 (17)*** | 2.64 (17)*** | 3.29 (17)*** | 1.53 (15) | 2.17 (15)** | 103.24 (17)*** | 6.03 (17)*** |
| N = | 1,614 | 1,375 | 1,386 | 662 | 631 | 1,384 | 1,386 |
| Combined models | |||||||
| Generation Status | |||||||
| First generation | .86 (.69–1.09) | .81 (.47–1.40) | .98 (.58–1.64) | .35 (.16–.73)** | .59 (.27–1.31) | 1.17 (.70–1.94) | 1.32 (.55–3.15) |
| Second generation | .97 (.80–1.17) | 1.09 (.71–1.68) | 1.09 (.74–1.60) | .56 (.34–.94)* | .73 (.44–1.23) | 1.22 (.79–1.89) | 1.15 (.58–2.29) |
| THird generaton | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) |
| Language status | |||||||
| Youth interview conducted in Spanishc |
.75 (.50–1.13) | .88 (.36–2.15) | .88 (.38–2.05) | .76 (.36–1.58) | 1.23 (.57–2.68) | .48 (.18–1.29) | .74 (.18–2.89) |
| Parent interview conducted in Spanish |
.97 (.74–1.26) | .88 (.48–1.60) | 1.16 (.66–2.03) | – | – | .86 (.49–1.51) | .62 (.23–1.65) |
| Responding parent speaks a second language at home |
1.00 (.83–1.20) | .65 (.42–.99)* | .91 (.62–1.33) | .72 (.43–1.21) | 1.29 (.77–2.18) | .86 (.56–1.32) | 1.21 (.60–2.47) |
| Youth and responding parent speak only English |
(1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) |
| Country of origin | |||||||
| Mexico | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) | (1.00) |
| Puerto Rico | 1.33 (1.00–1.77) | .93 (.46–1.86) | 1.11 (.58–2.14) | 1.47 (.60–3.56) | .94 (.41–2.14) | .69 (.29–1.64) | .15 (.05–.48)** |
| Cuba | .85 (.56–1.28) | 1.10 (.49–2.48) | 1.21 (.59–2.46) | – | – | .32 (.09–1.14) | .13 (.04–.49)** |
| Central/South America | 1.22 (.96–1.53) | .88 (.53–1.47) | 1.14 (.68–1.90) | – | – | .78 (.45–1.35) | .56 (.23–1.39) |
| Otherd | 1.26 (1.04–1.53)* | 1.00 (.64–1.56) | 1.00 (.67–1.50) | 1.41 (.86–2.30) | 1.06 (.65–1.73) | .89 (.59–1.36) | .33 (.16–.69)** |
| Chi-square/ F statistic (DF)b | 84.52 (23)*** | 2.18 (23)*** | 2.65 (23)*** | 1.90 (20)** | 1.74 (20)* | 117.79 (23)*** | 4.68 (23)*** |
| N = | 1,614 | 1,375 | 1,386 | 662 | 631 | 1,384 | 1,386 |
All models include all covariates listed in Table 1.
p < .001.
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p < .5.
Transition to sexual experience before age 18 and 9/15/2008Transiton to a live birth before age 20 are run in event history models; other outcomes are run in logistic regression models. Chi–square statistics and associated p values are reported for event history models and F–statistics and associated p values are reported for logistic regression models.
In models predicting outcomes at age 17, we combined “Parent interview conducted in Spanish” with “Youth interview conducted in Spanish”, due to small cell sizes.
In models predicting outcomes at age 17, we combined Cuba, and Central/South America with the “Other” category due to small cell sizes.