Table 3.

Descriptive Statistics About Older Adults’ Relationship With the Confidants Newly Acquired at Wave 6

	Partner	Children	Relatives	Friends	Other non-kin
Other network members available
All respondents	0.018	0.251	0.219	0.190	0.077
Experienced no partner loss (Ref)	0.008	0.247	0.214	0.182	0.072
Partner died	0.017*	0.315***	0.300***	0.232***	0.146***
Partner lost for other reasons	0.206***	0.294***	0.252*	0.322***	0.124***
In partner exclusivity
All respondents	0.024	0.460	0.197	0.145	0.067
Experienced no partner loss (Ref)	0.011	0.447	0.191	0.139	0.061
Partner died	0.006	0.701***	0.274**	0.178	0.166***
Partner lost for other reasons	0.287***	0.540**	0.262**	0.232***	0.110**
In partner exclusivity, experienced loss
Death, men (Ref)	0.017	0.593	0.186	0.203	0.119
Death, women	0.000	0.765*	0.327	0.163	0.194
For other reasons, men (Ref)	0.331	0.476	0.185	0.218	0.105
For other reasons, women	0.239	0.611*	0.345**	0.248	0.115
Death, 50–59 (Ref)	0.000	0.588	0.412	0.235	0.176
Death, 60–69	0.023	0.750	0.250	0.273	0.045
Death, 70+	0.000	0.698	0.260	0.125*	0.219
For other reasons, 50–59 (Ref)	0.276	0.474	0.355	0.316	0.066
For other reasons, 60–69	0.298	0.548	0.167**	0.214	0.083
For other reasons, 70+	0.286	0.597	0.273	0.169*	0.182*

Notes: Proportion differences across the groups are compared with the Chi-square test.

*p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.