Table 2.

Description of sample selection

	Sample size (respondents)
Initial sample	13,891
After exclusion of
Men	7,129
Birth cohort 1991–1993	4,990
Migrants	3,872
Childless persons	2,449
Mothers without coresiding partner at 1st childbirth	2,018
Inconsistencies/unions ending with partner′s death/homosexual unions	1,877
Women who had a 1st birth prior to 10/1990	1,844

Sources pairfam/DemoDiff (2008–2011), own estimates