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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Forces. 2018 Dec 19;98(2):885–914. doi: 10.1093/sf/soy117

Table 2.

Item-response probabilities conditional on class membership (N = 5,070)

Pink-collar
workers
without
children
Professional
workers
without
children
Professional
workers
with
children
Pink-collar
workers
with
children
Pink-collar
part-time
workers with
children
Mothers
without
paid
employment
Slow
starters
Relationship status Single 52.0 47.4 11.3 34.0 24.7 16.4 72.2
Cohabiting 21.8 17.7 12.1 22.5 18.0 10.1 18.6
Married 26.2 34.9 76.6 43.6 57.3 73.5 9.2
Count of children in respondenťs care None 73.4 92.3 6.1 1.3 2.0 .6 71.9
One 25.2 7.6 39.3 19.3 23.7 12.6 26.5
Two 1.4 .1 42.1 47.2 47.6 44.0 1.6
Three or more .0 .0 12.6 32.2 26.7 42.9 .0
Employment status Not working 9.6 2.1 8.7 .2 39.6 90.1 61.9
Part-time 8.8 4.4 11.5 .0 58.8 3.1 30.2
Full-time 81.6 93.5 79.9 99.8 1.7 6.7 7.9
Occupational classification Professional 33.3 76.7 73.6 23.3 16.6 20.5 18.7
Pink-collar 66.7 23.3 26.4 76.7 83.5 79.5 81.3
Decision-making freedom High 60.2 73.6 81.0 67.8 59.4 47.8 37.1
Low 39.8 26.4 19.0 32.2 40.6 52.2 62.9
Personal earnings ≤ $10,000 10.0 .0 .2 19.8 50.9 98.7 74.3
$10,001 - $20,000 23.6 .2 2.4 31.1 32.3 1.3 21.1
$20,001 - $30,000 40.0 4.1 17.3 34.9 14.7 .0 4.3
$30,001 - $40,000 20.9 24.1 38.1 12.1 2.1 .0 .3
> $40,000 5.4 71.6 42.0 2.1 .1 .0 .0
Probability of class membership 19.9 16.9 15.1 14.3 12.3 11.1 10.4

Notes: Estimates represent the probability of item endorsement conditional on membership in class s.