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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of married immigrants: by type of marriage

From: Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants: differences by gender

 

Married male immigrants

Married female immigrants

Immigrant wife

Native wife

Immigrant husband

Native husband

Percentage

75.68

24.32

72.31

27.69

Weekly market hours

39.79

41.02

25.15

27.94

(13.78)

(15.13)

(19.42)

(19.06)

Years of education

12.3

13.69

12.31

14.68

(4.86)

(3.95)

(4.46)

(3.15)

Age

42.46

41.73

40.5

40.64

(9.65)

(10.72)

(9.77)

(10.53)

% with good English

46.99

79.72

47.19

86.08

(49.99)

(40.21)

(49.92)

(34.62)

Years in USA

23.09

27.97

22.6

27.52

(10.44)

(13.88)

(10.96)

(13.62)

Lives in a metro

93.73

89.33

94.18

91.09

(24.24)

(30.88)

(23.42)

(28.49)

In school

4.15

5.77

6.26

9.07

(19.95)

(23.31)

(24.23)

(28.72)

Marriage and spouse characteristics

Age of marriage

27.42

27.07

26.28

26.17

(6.24)

(5.65)

(6.28)

(5.62)

Marriage duration

14.04

14.66

14.23

14.47

(9.44)

(11.03)

(9.92)

(11.09)

No. of children

1.77

1.5

1.74

1.33

(1.26)

(1.26)

(1.26)

(1.19)

Spouse market hours

23.13

27.61

39.03

41.18

(19.73)

(18.61)

(14.36)

(14.88)

Spouse education

12.29

14.39

12.26

14.94

(4.61)

(2.92)

(4.73)

(3.13)

Spouse age

39.49

39.41

42.76

42.42

(9.65)

(10.12)

(10.21)

(10.82)

N

25,637

8238

19,462

7451

  1. Source: 2010 ACS. Appropriate person weights used in the calculations