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

Table 2 Selected factors of El Paso Children's Health Study participants by El Paso nativity.

	Lifelong	Immigrant
		Early: Before entering 1^st grade	Late: After entering 1^st grade
	(n = 4370)	(n = 862)	(n = 1164)
	%	%	%
Non-Hispanic	12.0	27.7	39.6
Hispanic, English Preferred	52.9	39.2	30.5
Hispanic, Spanish Preferred	35.1	33.1	29.9
Maximum Parental Education:
Some secondary school	18.7	13.7	10.3
High School Graduate	22.7	17.9	13.4
Some Post-High School	22.4	22.7	25.4
College Graduate or Higher	36.2	45.7	50.9
Outcomes:
Prevalent Allergy	33.0	33.5	28.5
Prevalent Asthma	12.6	12.2	10.5
Current Asthma	10.5	9.6	7.8
Covariates:
Female	51.4	50.2	50.2
Parental Allergy	32.3	39.2	37.1
Parental Asthma	12.4	13.9	13.4
Smoker in household	32.6	31.9	29.0

El Paso nativity- duration of El Paso residence by 3 strata. El Paso Children's Health Study of 4th or 5th grade children: El Paso Independent School District, February 2001 (n = 6396)

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