Table 2.
Discrimination attribution across levels of perceived everyday discrimination among Latinas in the United States estimated from the National Latino and Asian American Study, 2002–2003
| Unweighted, n (weighted %) | Overall n = 1014 (100) | Frequency of discrimination |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| High 402 (40) | Low 334 (33) | None 278 (27) | ||
| Everyday Discrimination Scale summary score, mean (SE) | 0.8 (0.03) | 1.6 (0.04) | 0.5 (0.01) | 0 (0.0) |
| Discrimination attribution (%)* | ||||
| Age | 5.8 | 8.5 | 7.5 | — |
| Ancestry/national origin/ethnicity | 18.3 | 23.3 | 27.5 | — |
| Gender/sex | 5.8 | 10.1 | 5.3 | — |
| Height/weight | 3.1 | 4.3 | 4.4 | — |
| Race | 15.9 | 22.6 | 21.7 | — |
| Skin color | 2.4 | 3.3 | 3.1 | — |
| Other | 21.3 | 29.0 | 30.4 | — |
| No discrimination | 27.6 | — | — | — |
All estimates are based on the weighted analytic sample. Percentages are column totals and may not add to 100% due to rounding.
SE = standard error.
*
Discrimination attributions are mutually exclusive.