Marked Ethnic, Nativity, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Disability and Health Insurance among US Children and Adults: The 2008–2010 American Community Survey

Table 4

Prevalence and adjusted odds of disability and lack of health insurance among US children under 18 years of age in 48 ethnic immigrant groups: the 2008–2010 American Community Survey (𝑁 = 2,079,138).

	Disability					No health insurance
Ethnic immigrant group	Prevalence		Adjusted odds ratio^1			Prevalence		Adjusted odds ratio^1
	%	SE	OR	95% CI		%	SE	OR	95% CI
Non-Hispanic White, US-born	4.09	0.02	1.00	Reference		5.81	0.02	1.00	Reference
Non-Hispanic White, immigrant	3.21	0.17	0.50	0.37	0.68	13.64	0.28	1.97	1.66	2.33
Mexican, US-born	3.32	0.04	0.70	0.64	0.76	14.23	0.07	2.13	2.01	2.25
Mexican, immigrant	2.82	0.12	0.42	0.34	0.52	54.76	0.33	10.70	9.81	11.68
Puerto Rican, US-born	6.82	0.13	1.25	1.07	1.47	6.44	0.13	1.02	0.87	1.20
Puerto Rican, immigrant	5.41	3.32	5.07	0.91	28.20	22.82	4.48	4.24	0.78	23.21
Cuban, US-born	3.35	0.20	0.60	0.36	0.99	9.05	0.29	1.71	1.25	2.34
Cuban, immigrant	3.66	0.54	0.62	0.27	1.42	28.04	1.26	3.20	2.13	4.81
Central/South American, US-born	2.92	0.08	0.63	0.51	0.78	12.49	0.15	2.05	1.81	2.32
Central/South American, immigrant	2.69	0.18	0.37	0.25	0.53	36.04	0.49	5.61	4.89	6.43
Other Hispanics, US-born	4.64	0.15	1.15	0.93	1.44	9.05	0.20	1.27	1.04	1.55
Other Hispanics, immigrant	4.20	0.92	0.99	0.35	2.78	30.65	1.94	3.14	1.63	6.06
Non-Hispanic Black, US-born	4.99	0.05	0.98	0.91	1.05	7.60	0.05	1.16	1.09	1.23
Non-Hispanic Black, immigrant	3.01	0.24	0.64	0.44	0.93	22.08	0.53	3.22	2.65	3.91
American Indian/Alaska Native	5.71	0.17	1.07	0.87	1.32	21.86	0.30	3.56	3.11	4.07
Asian Indian, US-born	1.32	0.09	0.33	0.16	0.66	4.95	0.17	1.31	0.91	1.88
Asian Indian, immigrant	2.21	0.26	0.34	0.15	0.77	12.65	0.52	3.24	2.38	4.40
Chinese, US-born	1.36	0.10	0.46	0.29	0.72	5.07	0.17	0.96	0.71	1.31
Chinese, immigrant	2.08	0.23	0.20	0.08	0.49	9.88	0.40	2.56	1.91	3.44
Filipino, US-born	1.97	0.14	0.60	0.37	0.96	4.15	0.19	1.04	0.73	1.48
Filipino, immigrant	2.00	0.26	0.62	0.34	1.14	11.93	0.57	2.43	1.76	3.36
Japanese, US-born	1.29	0.28	0.52	0.16	1.65	4.12	0.42	1.57	0.75	3.26
Japanese, immigrant	1.83	0.58	#			4.10	0.84	0.93	0.22	3.96
Korean, US-born	1.74	0.19	0.63	0.34	1.16	14.21	0.47	3.65	2.70	4.93
Korean, immigrant	2.11	0.29	0.24	0.09	0.63	23.99	0.80	5.84	4.40	7.75
Vietnamese, US-born	1.77	0.15	0.49	0.29	0.82	9.03	0.28	1.76	1.34	2.33
Vietnamese, immigrant	2.49	0.43	0.33	0.12	0.90	17.37	0.91	2.57	1.73	3.81
Cambodian, US-born	3.13	0.52	0.44	0.16	1.21	9.90	0.75	1.06	0.57	1.98
Cambodian, immigrant	3.07	1.42	1.60	0.20	12.82	17.61	2.63	2.99	0.62	14.51
Bangladeshi, US-born	2.15	0.63	#			9.81	1.21	9.96	2.94	33.74
Bangladeshi, immigrant	1.43	0.92	#			18.46	2.66	6.24	2.21	17.61
Pakistani, US-born	1.51	0.30	0.63	0.20	2.02	10.39	0.64	1.70	0.83	3.48
Pakistani, immigrant	2.07	0.58	0.21	0.03	1.53	21.84	1.62	4.40	2.51	7.71
Hmong, US-born	2.55	0.36	0.31	0.10	0.99	6.12	0.60	0.61	0.28	1.31
Hmong, immigrant	4.20	1.24	1.44	0.43	4.85	3.87	1.02	0.35	0.05	2.58
Laotian, US-born	3.10	0.53	1.03	0.41	2.56	11.03	0.89	1.73	0.88	3.39
Laotian, immigrant	1.78	2.34	#			35.32	5.75	4.90	0.86	28.03
Thai, US-born	2.20	0.73	0.64	0.09	4.73	10.01	1.34	2.43	0.82	7.17
Thai, immigrant	1.66	1.01	#			19.02	2.74	3.17	1.34	7.47
Other Asians, US-born	1.88	0.19	0.48	0.23	1.03	5.27	0.29	1.16	0.72	1.89
Other Asians, immigrant	2.25	0.48	0.23	0.06	0.95	17.48	1.07	1.81	1.03	3.15
Native Hawaiian	3.26	0.58	0.20	0.03	1.45	4.22	0.64	0.89	0.36	2.23
Samoan	1.93	0.62	0.72	0.22	2.35	6.44	0.93	1.05	0.42	2.67
Guamanian	2.38	0.91	0.83	0.11	6.33	8.03	1.44	2.46	0.69	8.75
Other Pacific Islanders, US-born	1.34	0.56	1.13	0.27	4.83	12.07	1.31	1.89	0.64	5.53
Other Pacific Islanders, immigrant	0.45	2.44	#			16.17	5.95	#
All other groups, US-born	5.02	0.08	1.49	1.33	1.67	6.20	0.08	1.03	0.91	1.17
All other groups, immigrant	4.21	0.52	0.19	0.05	0.76	17.76	0.96	2.39	1.54	3.72

OR: odds ratio; SE: standard error; CI: confidence interval. #: Insufficient data.
1Adjusted by logistic regression model for age, gender, and poverty/family income levels.