Table 2.

Sequential Logistic Regression of Divorce Nonresponse and Response Error

	(1)			(2)			(3)			(4)
	Noncontact Error			Unit Nonresponse Error			Did Not Report Divorce			Misreported Divorce Date
Measure	B	SE B	e^B	B	SE B	e^B	B	SE B	e^B	B	SE B	e^B
Female	−0.140	0.164	0.87	−0.514^**	0.163	0.60	−0.561	0.360	0.57	−0.716^***	0.137	0.49
Years since divorce	−0.068	0.153	0.93	−0.390^*	0.156	0.68	−0.047	0.087	0.95	0.083^*	0.033	1.09
Age (at time of divorce)	−0.043^**	0.016	0.96	0.019	0.015	1.02	0.058^*	0.028	1.06	0.009	0.014	1.01
Previously divorced	0.620^**	0.216	1.86	−0.216	0.245	0.81	0.424	0.453	1.53	0.766^***	0.204	2.15
Marriage duration (years)	0.006	0.017	1.01	−0.016	0.015	0.98	−0.122^***	0.036	0.89	−0.025	0.014	0.98
Child/child custody
No child in home at separation	—			—			—			—
Has child, but no custody	0.054	0.208	1.06	−0.434	0.230	0.65	−0.682	0.557	0.51	0.057	0.195	1.06
Shares custody of child	−0.576^**	0.199	0.56	−0.425^*	0.187	0.65	−0.556	0.473	0.57	−0.316^*	0.152	0.73
R received sole custody	−0.254	0.218	0.78	−0.315	0.235	0.73	0.103	0.466	1.11	−0.001	0.178	1.00
Survey mode
Mail	—			—			—			—
CATI	—			—			0.352	0.358	1.42	−0.046	0.141	0.96
CAPI	—			—			0.295	0.450	1.35	−0.185	0.150	0.83
ln (Income in thousands)	Measures only available for those who responded to the survey						−0.640	0.358	0.53	−0.191	0.101	0.83
R's educational attainment							0.075	0.074	1.08	−0.099^***	0.029	0.91
Current marital status
Divorced							—			—
Married							1.715^***	0.411	5.56	0.396^*	0.157	1.48
Cohabiting							0.217	0.575	1.24	0.304^*	0.152	1.36
n		1,811			1,582			1,296			1,250
χ ²		37.364			29.977			77.427			128.024

Note: e^B = exponentiated B.

p ≤ .05.

^**

p ≤ .01.

^***

p ≤ .001 (two tailed).