Table 3.

Attitudes Toward Co-Residence and Respondents’ Explanations (percentages)

Vignette Responses
	Good idea	Bad idea	It depends	Don’t know	Total
All Respondents	30	12	54	4	100
Explanations from Open-Ended Follow-up
	Good idea	Bad idea	It depends	Don’t know	Total
Relationship quality/conflict	0.7	22.7	52.6	35.4	33.1
Family obligation	48.7	0	0.2	0	14.7
Resource constraints	6.2	2.2	7.4	1.9	6.3
Cohabitation	0.1	32.1	2.0	10.0	5.2
Short-term exchange	11.7	0	2.8	0	5.1
Housing	0.1	0.1	8.2	0	4.6
Duration	7.7	1.3	3.1	3.3	4.3
(In)dependence	0	27.7	1.0	6.0	4.0
Responsibility	0.3	1.4	5.7	1.7	3.5
If agree	0.4	0.3	4.6	4.2	2.8
Mother's health	0.2	0.3	4.8	0	2.8
Saves money	8.4	0	0.4	0	2.7
Other	15.5	11.9	7.5	37.5	11.2
Total (%)	100	100	100	100	100

Notes: Explanations are described in the text. Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding. Data are weighted. Unweighted N = 3,129 for vignette responses; 2,969 for explanations.