title: Migration from Latin American countries to the United States: the economic, social and reproductive lives of Hispanic female immigrants, 1980.
abstract: The authors describe the socioeconomic characteristics and fertility patterns of female immigrants from Latin America to the United States, with a focus on reasons for fertility differentials.  "Using the one per cent public use sample from the 1970 and 1980 United States census, we first compare changes in socio economic characteristics from 1970 to 1980, and then examine the determinants of fertility of female immigrants to the United States, aged 16-49, from four Latin American areas or countries of birth.... The findings...suggest that there are direct effects of demographic, assimilation, and socioeconomic variables beyond those mediated by the variables in each of these sets.  Further, regardless of the model, the effect of the clusters of demographic characteristics is most apparent.  Age categories and marital status are the strongest indexed determinants of immigrant fertility.... The effect of education and employment is strong.  Among assimilation variables, duration of residence and language ability are significant determinants of Hispanic immigrant fertility." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gorwaney
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Van Arsdol
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Heer
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Schuerman
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D003142:Communication; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D005298:Fertility; D005843:Geography; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D007802:Language; D007843:Latin America; D017533:Marital Status; D008393:Marriage; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012922:Social Change; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States; D006801:Humans
keywords: Acculturation; Age Factors; Americas; Communication; Comparative Studies; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Differential Fertility--determinants; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Employment; Ethnic Groups; Fertility; Geographic Factors; Hispanics; International Migration--women; Language; Latin America; Macroeconomic Factors; Marital Status; Migrants--women; Migration; North America; Northern America; Nuptiality; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Social Change; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Spatial Distribution; Studies; United States