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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biodemography Soc Biol. 2010;56(1):1–23. doi: 10.1080/19485561003709131

APPENDIX.

Intercorrelations between the thirteen variables used in the LISREL modeling, with females above and males below the diagonal.

Variable 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
1. Gender role attitude, 1979 .50 −.28 −.27 −.27 .10 .05 .07 .04 .05 .03 .06 .06
2. Gender role attitude, 1982 .50 −.28 −.30 −.30 .09 .03 .10 .05 .04 .04 .08 .08
3. Expected years of education, 1979 −.33 −.33 .70 .70 −.09 .03 −.06 .02 .04 −.05 −.13 −.04
4. Expected years of education, 1981 −.30 −.33 .70 .79 −.06 .04 −.04 .06 .07 −.08 −.14 −.05
5. Expected years of education, 1982 −.30 −.32 .67 .77 −.06 .03 −.04 .06 .07 −.06 −.14 −.06
6. Ideal number of children, 1979 .07 .05 .02 .01 −.01 .57 .38 .31 .30 .02 .04 .06
7. Desired number of children, 1979 .03 .03 .07 .07 .06 .54 .31 .36 .35 .04 .04 .08
8. Ideal number of children, 1982 .09 .12 −.01 −.01 −.01 .41 .35 .61 .57 .07 .05 .09
9. Desired number of children, 1982 .06 .09 .03 .03 .04 .31 .47 .62 .83 .10 .10 .15
10. Expected number of children, 1982 .07 .10 −.01 −.00 .01 .27 .40 .55 .82 .10 .10 .17
11. Reciprocal, exp. timing of next child, 1982 .03 .05 −.08 −.10 −.11 .02 .02 .02 .07 .08 .39 .14
12. Reciprocal, act. timing of next child, 2002 .10 .13 −.15 −.17 −.20 .08 .03 .07 .08 .09 .42 .52
13. Actual number of children, 2002 .16 .18 −.19 −.20 −.22 .09 .10 .15 .21 .25 .14 .48