Table 3.

Demographic characteristics of Mexicans in Mexico aged 50 years and older who at some point returned from the United States.

Age returned	<50	50+	Total
Unweighted N	631	321	952
In in U.S. at least 10 years (%)	15.2***	33.9	20.7
Missing	0.2	0.2	0.2
Mean age ± Standard Deviation	61.0±9.6***	66.3±9.6	62.6±9.9
[Range]	[50–96]	[51–93]	[50–96]
Married last time returned from U.S. (%)	81.5***	91.6	84.5
Missing	1.8	3.8	2.3
Mean no. living children ± Standard Deviation	4.5±2.9*	5.4±3.6	4.8±3.2
[Range]	[0–19]	[0–21]	[0–21]
U.S. citizen/Legal Permanent Resident – imputed (%)	10.6***	30.3	16.4
Neither	87.5	69.1	82.1
Missing	1.9	0.5	1.5
Completed elementary school (%)	89.4***	71.0	84.0
Male (%)	84.1	79.3	82.7

^*p-value<0.05

^**p-value<0.01

^***p-value<0.001 in Rao-Scott chi-squared tests for categorical variables using non-missing values and one-way analysis of variance tests for continuous variables using non-missing values. Estimates weighted by MHAS-provided sampling weights.

Source: Authors’ calculations using the 2012 Mexican Health and Aging (MHAS).