Environmental Health

Table 1 Selected factors of children enrolled in the El Paso Children's Health Study by Hispanic ethnicity.

From: Variability in childhood allergy and asthma across ethnicity, language, and residency duration in El Paso, Texas: a cross-sectional study

	Non-Hispanic	Hispanic
		English Preferred	Spanish Preferred
	(n = 1226)	(n = 3005)	(n = 2165)
	%	%	%
El Paso Resident Since:
Birth	42.9	76.9	70.8
Before entering 1st grade	19.5	11.3	13.2
After entering 1st grade	37.6	11.8	16.0
Maximum Parental Education:
Some secondary school	2.0	10.1	33.6
High School Graduate	11.5	22.6	22.2
Some Post-High School	18.6	19.4	30.5
College Graduate or Higher	67.9	47.9	13.7
Outcomes:
Prevalent Allergy	38.9	36.9	22.0
Prevalent Asthma	15.7	13.9	7.8
Current Asthma	12.2	11.8	5.9
Covariates:
Female	49.5	50.9	52.2
Parental Allergy	53.3	40.9	13.8
Parental Asthma	19.3	13.7	7.9
Smoker in household	29.1	29.8	36.2

Unadjusted prevalence of Non-Hispanic, Hispanic English-preferred, and Hispanic Spanish-preferred ethnicity in 4th or 5th grade children: El Paso Independent School District, February 2001 (n = 6396)

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