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Published in final edited form as: J Fam Issues. 2011 Mar 8;32(9):1178–1204. doi: 10.1177/0192513X11398945

Table 3.

Regression Analysis of Annual Number of Social Activities for Adults: Spending Evening with Relatives, Neighbors, Coworkers, or Friends - National Survey of Families and Households (N=11,307)

	Number of times spent evening with
	Relatives		Neighbors	Coworkers	Friends
	(1a)	(1b)	(2)	(3)	(4a)	(4b)
Independent Variables
Grew up without Siblings (1=yes)	−6.89 ^*	−11.13 ^*	1.12	0.59	−0.39	−15.61 ^*
Sex (1= female)	6.11 ^*	6.14 ^*	0.39	−4.88 ^*	−3.37^*	−3.37 ^*
Age (in years)	−0.32 ^*	−0.32 ^*	−0.18 ^*	−0.37 ^*	−0.81 ^*	−0.83 ^*
Lived with parents to age 19	1.47	0.91	−2.89 ^*	0.38	−3.89 ^*	−3.85 ^*
Married or cohabiting (1=yes)	−1.09 ^α	−1.09 ^α	−2.79 ^*	−1.41 ^*	−4.57 ^*	−4.57 ^*
Number of children in household		^*
Ages 0 to 5	2.30 ^*	2.29^*	−0.37	−3.15 ^*	−8.29 ^*	−8.33 ^*
Ages 6 to 12	−2.18 ^*	−2.17 ^*	−0.49	−2.34 ^*	−5.68 ^*	−5.69 ^*
Ages 13 to 17	−3.23 ^*	−3.28 ^*	−2.58 ^*	−0.75	−3.00 ^*	−3.00 ^*
Hours worked last week	−0.16 ^*	−0.16 ^*	−0.28 ^*	0.25 ^*	−0.20 ^*	−0.20 ^*
Educational attainment	−1.66 ^*	−1.67 ^*	−1.26 ^*	−0.42 ^*	0.36 ^α	0.35 ^α
Household Income (in $1,000s)	−0.04 ^*	−0.04 ^*	−0.05 ^*	−0.04 ^*	−0.10 ^*	−0.10 ^*
Race/ethnicity
White	−14.25 ^*	−14.31 ^*	−9.71 ^*	−3.55 ^*	−0.45	−0.50
Hispanic	−8.47 ^*	−8.50 ^*	−11.74 ^*	3.47 ^α	−0.69	−0.75
Other	−16.61 ^*	−16.70 ^*	−12.04 ^*	1.15	0.35	0.29
Health	3.59 ^*	3.60 ^*	1.73 ^*	1.27 ^*	3.49 ^*	3.49 ^*
Interactions:
Grew up without siblings × Lived with parents to age 19	--	8.57 ^α	--	--	--	--
Grew up without siblings × Age	--	--	--	--	--	0.33 ^*
Constant	72.74 ^*	73.20 ^*	65.35 ^*	35.56 ^*	69.41 ^*	70.45 ^*
R²	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.06	0.07	0.07

p ≤ .05,

^α

≤ .10