Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics for the 1995 Life Events and Satisfaction Study Sample and Subsamples of Divorced Men and Women

	Total Sample			Women		Men
Variable	M	SD	Range	M	SD	M	SD
Data From 1989/1993 Divorce Certificates (N = 1,811)
Years since divorcea	0.49	0.50	0–1	0.49	0.50	0.49	0.50
Age at divorce	40.2	8.97	21–74	39.1	8.57	41.3	9.22
Previously divorced	0.19	0.39	0–1	0.19	0.39	0.18	0.39
Marital duration (years)	11.2	8.2	0–52	11.2	8.01	11.2	8.40
Child/child custody
No child in home at separation	0.39	0.38	0–1	0.38	0.38	0.40	0.39
Has child, but no custody	0.16	0.36	0–1	0.05	0.22	0.26	0.44
Shares custody of child	0.28	0.44	0–1	0.27	0.44	0.28	0.44
R received sole custody of child	0.18	0.38	0–1	0.31	0.46	0.05	0.21
Data From the 1995 Life Events and Satisfaction Survey (N = 1,296)
Income (in thousands)b	41.6	26.3	1–300	37.5	24.5	46.2	27.4
R's educational attainmentc	13.7	2.22	10–19	13.6	2.17	13.7	2.27
Current marital status
Divorced	0.44	0.46	0–1	0.47	0.46	0.41	0.45
Married	0.34	0.47	0–1	0.32	0.47	0.37	0.48
Cohabiting	0.22	0.41	0–1	0.22	0.41	0.22	0.41

^aYears since divorce: 0 = 2 years, 1 = 6 years (years used in analyses).

^bIncome is “total annual income for your family” in thousands (ln (income in thousands) used in analyses).

^cEducational attainment: 10 = did not finish high school, 12 = graduated from high school or obtained a GED, 14 = received a vocational/technical or associate's degree, 16 = received a bachelor's degree, 19 = received a graduate degree.