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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Serv Rev. 2011 Sep 1;85(3):323–357. doi: 10.1086/661922

Table 1. Descriptive Statistics for Family Structure.

%
Family structure in 2002:
 Two-biological-parent family 65.65
  Married 62.29
  Cohabiting 3.36
 Mother and social-father family 7.98
  Married 6.75
  Cohabiting 1.23
 Single-mother family 22.85
 Father but not mother present 3.51
  Father and social-mother family 1.39
  Single-father family 2.12
Family structure stability and transitions between 1997 and 2002:
 Stable family structure between 1997 and 2002 82.89
  Two-biological-parent family in both 1997 and 2002 62.90
  Social-parent family in both 1997 and 2002 3.96
  Single-parent family in both 1997 and 2002 16.21
 Family structure transition between 1997 and 2002 16.91
  To single-parent family between 1997 and 2002 8.76
  Two-biological-parent family in 1997, single-parent family in 2002 6.21
  Social-parent family in 1997, single-parent family in 2002 1.99
  Adoptive parent or no parent family in 1997, single-parent family in 2002 .56
  To two-biological parent family between 1997 and 2002 2.74
   Single-parent family in 1997, two-biological-parent family in 2002 2.09
   Social-parent family in 1997, two-biological-parent family in 2002 .54
   Adoptive parent or no parent family in 1997, two-biological-parent family in 2002 .11
  To social-parent family between 1997 and 2002 5.41
   Single-parent family in 1997, social-parent family in 2002 3.92
   Two-biological-parent family in 1997, social-parent family in 2002 1.46
   Adoptive parent or no parent family in 1997, social-parent family in 2002 .03

Note.—13,883 observations with nonmissing data on at least one outcome measure across 10 imputed data sets (1,385–91 observations per data set). Figures may not sum to 100 percent due to rounding.