Trust of second-generation immigrants: intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico

doi:10.1186/2193-9039-3-10

Table 1 Descriptive statistics

From: Trust of second-generation immigrants: intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

	US				AUSTRALIA
	Mean	Std Deviat	Min	Max	Mean	Std Deviat	Min	Max
Trust in the host country	0.406	0.491	0	1	0.609	0.488	0	1
Trust in the home country	0.329	0.118	0.06	0.609	0.387	0.089	0.055	0.491
Individual statistics
Proportion of males	0.446	0.497	0	1	0.475	0.499	0	1
Age	54.32	19.55	18	89	41.04	18.22	15	93
Less than high school	0.264	0.441	0	1	0.326	0.468	0	1
High school	0.491	0.500	0	1	0.183	0.387	0	1
College	0.045	0.208	0	1	0.284	0.451	0	1
Bachelor	0.128	0.334	0	1	0.122	0.327	0	1
Postgraduate	0.073	0.259	0	1	0.084	0.277	0	1
Married	0.509	0.500	0	1	0.589	0.492	0	1
Widowed	0.184	0.388	0	1	0.045	0.208	0	1
Separated	0.115	0.319	0	1	0.057	0.232	0	1
Divorced	0.020	0.142	0	1	0.025	0.155	0	1
Never married	0.171	0.377	0	1	0.283	0.450	0	1
Employed full-time	0.382	0.486	0	1	0.441	0.496	0	1
Employed part-time	0.088	0.283	0	1	0.230	0.421	0	1
Unemployed	0.052	0.221	0	1	0.036	0.185	0	1
Out of the labour force	0.478	0.499	0	1	0.294	0.455	0	1
One parent is immigrant	0.496	0.500	0	1	0.662	0.473	0	1
Both parents are immigrants, different origins	0.392	0.488	0	1	0.083	0.277	0	1
Both parents are immigrants, same origin	0.099	0.299	0	1	0.254	0.435	0	1
Number of children	2.077	1.819	0	8	1.500	1.566	0	8
Major urban areas	0.511	0.500	0	1	0.649	0.478	0	1
Other urban areas	0.303	0.459	0	1	0.208	0.406	0	1
Bounded localities	0.094	0.291	0	1	0.024	0.153	0	1
Rural areas	0.092	0.289	0	1	0.119	0.324	0	1
Host-country statistics
GDP growth	3.290	1.877	−3.369	7.186	3.015	0.561	2.257	3.832
Unemployment rate	6.100	1.400	4.000	9.600	4.846	0.359	4.279	5.237
Female labour force participation	56.71	3.162	50.00	59.90	57.99	0.729	56.99	58.74
Population density	28.20	2.793	24.25	33.77	2.745	0.085	2.648	2.865
Crime rate	7.764	1.630	4.80	10.20	2.491	0.312	2.000	2.800
Gini index	0.351	0.016	0.328	0.380	0.322	0.010	0.310	0.336
Segregation index	0.084	0.013	0.060	0.103	0.001	0.000	0.001	0.001
Perceived racial inequality	0.389	0.039	0.303	0.423	0.257	0.026	0.225	0.289
Home-country statistics
GDP growth	1.871	4.578	−11.6	8.8	0.617	2.749	−2.90	7.80
Unemployment rate	6.897	3.396	1.50	13.7	9.495	2.494	1.50	13.20
Female labour force participation	42.71	10.25	29.7	63	40.34	8.822	20.20	70.00
Democracy levels	1.808	1.406	1	6	1.742	1.705	1	7

Sample: second-generation immigrants residing in the United States or in Australia.
Source: HILDA 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and GSS 1978–2010. Sources for country statistics: World Bank, OECD, ILO, Freedom House, US Census Bureau, ABS, US Department of Justice.

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