Abstract
It is certainly well-known that racial and ethnic groups tend to be at a disadvantage socially, economically and in terms of overall well-being in the United States. It is the intent of this book to underscore the extent of this disadvantage (by focusing on the extent of poverty) with special emphasis on Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the Southwestern United States. This goal is accomplished by analyzing the poverty of these groups through the use of logistic regression at four levels: extreme poverty , 100% poverty (also known as the poverty threshold ), low income status (200% of the poverty line), and relative poverty (measured as 50% or less of the state median income ).
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A Super-PUMA (Super Public Use Microdata Area) is a geographic area with 400,000+ residents (Ruggles et al., 2008). This is the area-based measure used to conduct analyses containing contextual level information.
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Garcia, G. (2011). Introduction. In: Mexican American and Immigrant Poverty in the United States. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0539-5_1
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