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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Marriage Fam. 2012 Sep 24;74(5):931–943. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01008.x

Table 3.

Correlates of Living in a Three Generation Family Household at the Birth of the Child - Logistic Regressions (N=4898)

Full Sample Married Cohabiting Single
Economics B SE B OR B SE B OR B SE B OR B SE B OR
Mother’s education
 Less than high school a, b 0.18+ (0.09) 1.19 0.17 (0.33) 1.19 0.52** (0.16) 1.68 0.04 (0.12) 1.04
 Some college 0.04 (0.10) 1.04 0.21 (0.28) 1.23 0.18 (0.19) 1.19 −0.07 (0.14) 0.93
 College and above −0.64** (0.20) 0.53 −0.92* (0.38) 0.40 −0.35 (0.50) 0.71 −0.12 (0.31) 0.89
Grandmother’s education
 Less than High School −0.12 (0.14) 0.89 −0.36 (0.34) 0.70 −0.03 (0.21) 0.97 −0.18 (0.18) 0.83
 Some college b, c 0.01 (0.11) 1.01 −0.70+ (0.41) 0.50 −0.21 (0.22) 0.81 0.28 (0.17) 1.32
 College and above b, c 0.08 (0.14) 1.08 −0.17 (0.35) 0.85 −0.18 (0.25) 0.83 0.29 (0.21) 1.33
Culture
Black non-Hispanic 0.29* (0.12) 1.34 0.41 (0.30) 1.50 0.20 (0.20) 1.22 0.19 (0.17) 1.20
Hispanic 0.28+ (0.14) 1.33 0.35 (0.36) 1.41 0.16 (0.23) 1.18 0.23 (0.21) 1.26
Other non-Hispanic 0.75** (0.22) 2.12 0.91+ (0.45) 2.48 0.98* (0.39) 2.65 0.42 (0.34) 1.52
Lived with both parents at 15 0.24** (0.08) 1.27 0.09 (0.24) 1.10 0.08 (0.14) 1.09 0.43** (0.11) 1.54
Mother immigrant b, c −0.60** (0.15) 0.55 −0.39 (0.34) 0.68 −0.34 (0.25) 0.71 -1.02** (0.24) 0.36
Grandparent immigrant a 0.19 (0.14) 1.21 0.75* (0.32) 2.12 −0.19 (0.25) 0.83 0.23 (0.21) 1.26
Protestant 0.16 (0.13) 1.17 −0.22 (0.47) 0.80 0.18 (0.23) 1.20 0.15 (0.16) 1.17
Catholic 0.17 (0.15) 1.19 −0.35 (0.48) 0.70 0.30 (0.26) 1.35 0.17 (0.21) 1.18
Other 0.07 (0.18) 1.07 −0.18 (0.50) 0.84 0.06 (0.36) 1.06 0.08 (0.25) 1.08
Generational needs
Age : Under 18a 1.09** (0.22) 2.97 0.72+ (0.42) 2.05 1.14** (0.28) 3.11
 18-19 0.35* (0.15) 1.41 0.31 (0.64) 1.37 0.17 (0.25) 1.18 0.42* (0.20) 1.53
 20-24 0.12 (0.11) 1.12 0.30 (0.34) 1.35 −0.04 (0.19) 0.96 0.16 (0.15) 1.18
 25-34a,b −0.68** (0.12) 0.51 −0.19 (0.30) 0.83 −0.70** (0.23) 0.50 −0.77** (0.17) 0.46
Mother’s first birth a, b, c 0.71** (0.08) 2.03 0.11 (0.24) 1.11 0.46** (0.14) 1.58 1.00** (0.11) 2.72
Low birth weight baby 0.02 (0.12) 1.02 −0.15 (0.49) 0.86 −0.13 (0.23) 0.88 0.11 (0.15) 1.12
Grandparent depression −0.03 (0.09) 0.97 −0.28 (0.26) 0.76 0.14 (0.16) 1.15 −0.07 (0.12) 0.93
Grandparent substance abuse a −0.07 (0.09) 0.93 0.40 (0.26) 1.50 −0.24 (0.15) 0.79 −0.07 (0.12) 0.93
Relationship status
 Cohabiting 0.22 (0.13) 1.25
 Single 1.56** (0.13) 4.77
Constant −2.51** (0.21) 0.08 −2.30** (0.59) 0.10 −2.08** (0.34) 0.12 −1.01** (0.27) 0.36
Observations 4898 1190 1780 1928

Note: Standard errors in parentheses.

a

Married-cohabiting difference in coefficie nt is sign ificant at p<.05.

b

Married -single difference in coeffic ient is si gnificant at p<.05.

c

Cohabiting-single difference in coefficient is significant at p<.05.

+

p < .10

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01