Table 4.
Odds Ratios (OR) from a Multinomial Logistic Regression Predicting Attitudes Toward Co-Residence (“Bad idea” is reference category)
| Good idea vs. Bad idea |
It depends vs. Bad idea |
Don’t know vs. Bad idea |
p value for joint Wald test |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | Z | OR | Z | OR | Z | ||
| Vignette Characteristics | |||||||
| Adult child union status (married) | < .01 | ||||||
| Cohabiting | 0.18 | −8.55 | 0.34 | −6.22 | 0.50 | −2.10 | |
| Single | 3.34 | 4.77 | 2.22 | 3.25 | 1.32 | 0.66 | |
| Adult child has young child | 1.11 | 0.65 | 0.96 | −0.27 | 1.24 | 0.79 | .46 |
| Adult child is man (woman) | 1.38 | 1.96 | 1.31 | 1.86 | 0.91 | −0.31 | .13 |
| Adult child needs help (parent) | 0.60 | −3.18 | 0.85 | −1.14 | 0.67 | −1.39 | < .01 |
| Indefinite stay (3 months) | 0.49 | −4.21 | 0.84 | −1.20 | 1.09 | 0.30 | < .01 |
| Respondent Characteristics | |||||||
| Age, in years | 0.97 | −4.87 | 0.98 | −3.56 | 0.96 | −3.37 | < .01 |
| Male (female) | 0.98 | −0.14 | 0.89 | −0.76 | 1.12 | 0.39 | .67 |
| Race and Hispanic ethnicity (Non-Hispanic White) | .16 | ||||||
| Non-Hispanic Black | 1.08 | 0.28 | 0.81 | −0.81 | 1.21 | 0.40 | |
| Hispanic | 1.94 | 1.99 | 1.36 | 0.99 | 1.63 | 1.08 | |
| Non-Hispanic Other | 2.01 | 1.73 | 1.25 | 0.55 | 2.19 | 1.13 | |
| Education (college +) | .02 | ||||||
| Less than high school | 0.66 | −1.33 | 0.56 | −2.12 | 2.66 | 2.12 | |
| High school graduate | 0.73 | −1.50 | 0.73 | −1.62 | 1.79 | 1.50 | |
| Some college | 0.82 | −0.86 | 0.95 | −0.25 | 1.79 | 1.46 | |
| Employment status (employed) | .62 | ||||||
| Unemployed | 0.86 | −0.46 | 0.97 | −0.10 | 0.37 | −1.76 | |
| Not in labor force | 1.08 | 0.39 | 1.01 | 0.05 | 0.76 | −0.70 | |
| Income in lowest 2 quintiles | 0.96 | −0.20 | 1.24 | 1.30 | 1.79 | 1.66 | .08 |
| Union status (married) | .77 | ||||||
| Cohabiting | 1.03 | 0.07 | 1.15 | 0.41 | 1.28 | 0.41 | |
| Widowed | 1.05 | 0.16 | 1.47 | 1.35 | 3.00 | 1.74 | |
| Divorced or separated | 1.34 | 1.10 | 1.46 | 1.65 | 1.48 | 0.93 | |
| Single | 1.01 | 0.03 | 1.10 | 0.45 | 0.80 | −0.58 | |
| Children live in household | 0.95 | −0.21 | 0.95 | −0.25 | 0.67 | −0.93 | .83 |
| Controls | |||||||
| Lives in MSA | 1.27 | 1.12 | 1.02 | 0.12 | 2.29 | 2.19 | .07 |
| Region (Midwest) | .06 | ||||||
| Northeast | 0.73 | −1.31 | 0.76 | −1.31 | 0.74 | −0.71 | |
| South | 0.77 | −1.28 | 0.69 | −2.07 | 0.53 | −1.89 | |
| West | 1.36 | 1.20 | 1.46 | 1.67 | 0.91 | −0.24 | |
| Did not have internet before | 0.87 | −0.74 | 0.93 | −0.47 | 2.36 | 2.58 | .02 |
Notes: Variables are described in the text. Reference category in parentheses. Data are weighted. Unweighted N = 3,129.