Table 1. Descriptive statistics by marital status at first birth and race/ethnicity among women whose first birth occurred prior to age 36 (imputed data)^a.

	Women with a nonmarital first birth (single mothers)				Women with a marital first birth (married mothers)
	White	Black	Hisp.	Total	White	Black	Hisp.	Total
Dependent variable
Self-assessed health age 40	3.29*** (1.10)	3.29*** (1.08)	3.33* (1.16)	3.30*** (1.10)	3.79 (1.05)	3.56 (1.06)	3.50 (1.13)	3.69 (1.08)
Control variables (1979/80)
Foreign born
Yes	1.78%	1.21%***	21.07%	4.87%***	2.64%	5.77%	27.78%	8.57%
No#	98.22%	98.79%	78.93%	95.13%	97.36%	94.23%	72.22%	91.43%
Age at first birth	20.37*** (4.79)	19.65 *** (4.34)	20.05*** (4.26)	19.86 *** (4.41)	24.74 (5.23)	23.61 (5.40)	22.88 (5.22)	24.17 (5.31)
Mother's education (years)	10.82*** (2.61)	10.33*** (2.76)	7.16* (4.30)	9.86*** (3.30)	11.84 (2.63)	10.94 (3.12)	7.83 (4.28)	10.84 (3.61)
Lived with both biological parents at age 14
Yes	61.48%***	43.69%***	53.32%***	48.80%***	79.98%	55.74%	69.66%	74.12%
No#	38.52%	56.31%	46.68%	51.20%	20.02%	44.26%	30.34%	25.88%
In Poverty
Yes	29.09%***	57.09%***	48.77%***	50.26%***	8.57%	33.35%	32.60%	17.48%
No#	70.91%	42.91%	51.23%	49.74%	91.43%	66.65%	67.40%	82.52%
Cognitive ability (AFQT) in 1980	35.88*** (26.49)	18.76*** (18.63)	20.32*** (20.49)	22.30*** (21.07)	53.68 (27.82)	25.65 (21.39)	28.14 (25.60)	43.95 (29.64)
Health Limitation	6.14 %* 93.86%	4.79% 95.21%	3.32% 96.68%	4.78%** 95.22%	3.35% 96.65%	3.46% 96.54%	1.58% 98.42%	2.98% 97.02%
n	186	626	159	971	1,355	305	450	2,110

Notes: Hisp. = Hispanic; Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) shown for continuous variables; Percentages shown for categorical variables.

^*p < .05;

^**p <.01;

^***p < .001 (two-tailed independent sample t-tests or chi-square tests of difference between single and married mothers within race/ethnicity);

^aStatistics presented for analytic sample used in Table 3.

^#Omitted reference category