Table 3.

Demographic Correlates of Timing and Duration of Poverty Over a 30-year Period

	Odds of Being in Poverty at:a
	Time 1 (1966–67)	Time 2 (1976–77)	Time 3 (1997–98)
Married Time 1	0.14***	0.32***	0.93
Married Time 2	--	0.12***	0.81
Married Time 3	--	--	0.34***
Employed Time 1	0.47***	0.39***	0.49***
Employed Time 2	--	0.29***	0.24***
Employed Time 3	--	--	0.08***
High school graduate	0.33***	0.32***	0.30***
Number of childrenb
3–4 children	1.02	1.27	0.98
5–6 children	1.75	3.32***	2.41**
7+ children	5.03***	6.26***	2.91***
1st child delivered < age 18	1.66*	1.73**	0.95

	Odds of Poverty (Relative to Not Poor at any time)c
	Early poverty only	Late poverty only	Late/episodic poverty	Persistent poverty
Married (in years)	0.96***	1.00	0.94***	0.90***
Employed (in years)	0.97	0.92***	0.91***	0.87***
Schooling (in years)	0.82**	0.78***	0.67***	0.58***

^aodds ratio from logistic regression (0=not poor, 1=poor)

^breference category = 1–2 children

^cmaximum-likelihood multinomial logistic regression; Not poor at Time 1, 2 or 3 = ref. category

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001