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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Stud (Camb). 2012 Dec 13;67(1):25–38. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2012.738823

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of pregnancy-desire measures used in the analyses (N=887 women aged 18 or 19, 34,377 observations over 2.5 years in a county in Michigan, United States)

Mean Std. Dev. Min. Max.

Core measures
Desire to become pregnant 1.20 0.83 1 6
Desire to avoid pregnancy 5.79 0.83 1 6
Differences between core measures
Signed difference −4.59 1.56 −5 5
  Desire to become pregnant - Desire to avoid pregnancy
Absolute difference 4.76 0.94 0 5
  Desire to become pregnant - Desire to avoid pregnancy
Products of core measures
Ambivalent continuous 6.43 2.45 1 36
  (Desire to become pregnant×desire to avoid pregnancy)
Indifferent continuous 6.49 2.88 1 36
  (Reverse-coded desire to become pregnant x Reverse-coded desire to avoid pregnancy)
Pronatal continuous 1.97 4.41 1 36
  (Desire to become pregnant×Reverse-coded desire to avoid pregnancy)
Antinatal continuous 34.11 6.79 1 36
  (Reverse-coded desire to become pregnant×Desire to avoid pregnancy)
Quadrant-based combinations of core measures
Ambivalent dummy 0.02 0.14 0 1
Indifferent dummy 0.01 0 .10 0 1
Pronatal dummy 0.02 0 .15 0 1
Antinatal dummy 0.92 0 .23 0 1
  Antinatal non-pole-cells dummy 0.03 0 .17 0 1
  Antinatal poll-cell dummy 0.91 0 .28 0 1

Source: As for Table 1