Of these, 249 identified themselves as either White non-Hispanic (N=150) or
White Hispanic (N=99).
(2007)
White Hispanic [32] white non-Hispanic Mahler (2014) Hispanic white, [38] Asian/Pacific Islander Pipitone et al.
White Hispanic Black Abortion 11 28 50 Unintended Pregnancy 35 78 98 Notes: Abortion data, 2004; unintended pregnancy data, 2001.
Reasons Hispanic Percent Surveyed Percent that Students Would Not that Agreed Disagreed Enter or Finish College The Cost of Tuition 77% 23% A need to work 77% 23% and earn money Receiving a poor high 58% 42% school education People feel that they do not need a college 48% 52% degree to be successful Discrimination 40% 60% Staying close to their family instead of going 33% 67% away to school SOURCE: PEW HISPANIC CENTER/KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION NATIONAL SURVEY OF LATINOS: EDUCATION, JANUARY 2004 HISPANIC FRESHMAN ENROLLMENT AT FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS 1996 2001
White Hispanic % Diff.
Because VR acceptance research clearly supports the assertion that race/ethnicity and VR acceptance are interrelated, ascertaining whether one is a Black or
White Hispanic seems not only necessary but fundamental to future research on VR acceptance and the Hispanic population.
White students 23% Black students 70% Hispanic students 71% EARLY LITERACY Hispanic children, 3- to 5- year-olds, are less likely than their white peers to be read to or to visit a library
White Hispanic Read to 89% 61% Visited a library 39% 25% MATH & READING Hispanic students' NAEP performance is lower than whites
White Hispanic NAEP reading score age 17 295 271 NAEP math score age 17 315 293 Internet Access Hispanic students are less likely than white students to hae a computer at home.
Percentage distribution of females aged 14-17, by selected characteristics, according to race or ethnicity, 2001 California Health Interview Survey Characteristic
White Hispanic (N=1,156) (N=473) HOUSEHOLD Language spoken at home English 97.4 48.4 *** Spanish u 51.6 Health insurance plan None 5.1 27.3 *** Medi-Cal or Healthy Families 8.7 28.3 *** Employer-based 81.6 41.5 *** Other (e.g.
Others include Mexican-American, Central American, South American, Spanish, and the many varieties of families that consider themselves Chicano or Latino, nonwhite Hispanic,
white Hispanic, biracial, bicultural, or multiethnic.
This may be the reason
white Hispanic children are twice as likely as non-Hispanic white children to be obese.
All data analyses in this study are broken out into four mutually exclusive demographic categories of ownership: White non-Hispanic; Black (including Hispanic);
White Hispanic; and Asian and other races (including Hispanic).
Median Perceived and Ideal Body Sizes of White and Hispanic Children Ethnicity
White Hispanic Perceived Body Size 4.24 [a][*] 4.50 Boys Ideal Body Size 4.13 [a][***] 4.39 [a][**] Discrepancy (Body Dissatisfaction) .11 [a][*] .11 Perceived Body Size 3.88 [a][*] 4.08 Girls Ildeal Body Size 3.33 [a][***] 3.56 [a][**] Discrepancy (Body Dissatisfaction) .55 [a][*] .52 (a.)significant gender difference, (*.)p [less than] .05, (**.)p [less than].01, (***.)p [less than].001.