Table 2
Summary Statistics
	Women		Men
Variable	Immigrants	UK Natives	Immigrants	UK Natives	Total
Weight indicators
BMI	25.68	26.36	26.58	26.35	26.35
Underweight	2.87%	1.96%	0.57%	0.73%	1.39%
Recommended weight	45.50%	43.13%	36.40%	40.33%	41.78%
Overweight	36.07%	33.61%	45.27%	41.77%	37.62%
Obese	15.57%	21.30%	17.77%	17.17%	19.21%
Labor market indicators
Monthly Wages (£)	1,346.85 (1,112.95)	1,193.49 (1,293.23)	2,173.66 (1,716.33)	1,891.34 (1,430.14)	1,568.37 (1,414.17)
Working (full or part time)	52.87%	54.13%	67.91%	67.82%	60.64%
Health limits work	34.84%	28.98%	22.64%	20.96%	25.31%
Managerial/Professional	50.19%	37.26%	56.54%	38.61%	38.58%
Skilled/Military	33.20%	42.78%	30.38%	43.82%	42.90%
Unskilled	16.60%	19.95%	13.08%	17.58%	18.53%
Demographic variables
Age	50.11	47.73	49.61	45.93	46.99
Number of children	0.55	0.51	0.55	0.47	0.49
Married	53.69%	50.79%	67.34%	55.31%	53.21%
College/professional degree	51.23%	36.94%	53.58%	42.94%	40.31%
High school/vocational degree	21.11%	37.17%	22.06%	36.18%	36.10%
No education/still in school	25.62%	24.17%	22.92%	18.38%	21.51%
Smoker	17.83%	25.14%	31.23%	25.33%	25.16%
Drinker	0.20%	0.42%	1.15%	0.76%	0.58%
Duration in the UK	31.57	n/a	33.99	n/a	n/a
Former British Colonies/Europe	64.34%	n/a	55.59%	n/a	n/a
East/Asia	10.25%	n/a	12.61%	n/a	n/a
From India/Pakistan	11.88%	n/a	12.32%	n/a	n/a
From Africa/S.America	13.52%	n/a	19.48%	n/a	n/a
White	77.46%	98.80%	76.22%	98.27%	97.69%
Black	4.50%	0.42%	4.30%	0.55%	0.64%
Asian	17.62%	0.49%	18.05%	0.74%	1.30%
Other race	7.58%	0.29%	7.16%	0.48%	0.66%
N (person-waves)	488	10,526	349	9720	21,083

Standard deviation for continuous variables in parentheses.

Averett et al. IZA Journal of Migration 2012 1:2   doi:10.1186/2193-9039-1-2