Table 1.

Background characteristics for men in the NSFG and NLSY

	NSFG Full Sample				NSFG Comparable to NLSY Cohort (5)	NLSY Full Sample
	Total (1)	Nonmarital Birth (2)	Marital Birth (3)	No Birth (4)		Total (6)	Nonmarital Birth (7)	Marital Birth (8)	NoBirth (9)
	M or %	M or %	M or %	M or %	M or %	M or %	M or %	M or %	M or %
Race
White, non-Hispanic	72.0	49.5	78.7	75.6	80.9	81.6	51.1	88.1	84.0
Black, non-Hispanic	11.4	23.8	5.8	10.7	11.2	12.4	39.4	6.1	11.0
Hispanic	16.5	26.6	15.5	13.7	7.9	6.1	9.5	5.8	5.0
Foreign-born	15.9	20.4	16.8	13.7	4.7	4.7	4.3	4.7	4.8
Father’s Education
Less than high school	24.4	42.5	25.8	17.5	27.7	31.5	46.8	29.4	29.0
High school diploma	30.5	32.5	31.8	29.1	32.0	36.0	33.5	35.9	37.1
Some college	18.6	14.5	17.9	20.4	16.2	12.2	11.5	11.9	12.9
Bachelor’s degree or higher	26.5	10.5	24.6	33.1	24.1	20.4	8.2	22.8	21.1
Mother Has More Education Than Father	21.2	23.2	21.2	20.6	21.6	18.7	20.5	17.9	19.5
Lived With Both Parents at Age 14	74.6	68.3	77.8	74.8	78.4	75.8	61.3	80.4	74.4
Mother Worked at Age 14/15	66.8	65.0	58.7	72.6	56.1	51.8	52.4	51.7	51.8
Religion Raised
Protestant	49.1	48.6	52.4	47.1	54.6	59.3	67.4	58.8	56.7
Catholic	35.7	42.5	33.7	34.6	32.1	33.3	25.2	34.5	34.8
Other	7.2	3.9	6.7	8.6	6.3	2.9	.9	3.3	3.1
None	8.0	5.0	7.2	9.6	7.0	4.5	6.5	3.3	5.4
Age at First Sex (mean)	17.1	15.9	17.6	17.2	17.4	16.5	15.1	16.8	16.7
(SD)	(3.6)	(3.4)	(3.8)	(3.5)	(3.8)	(2.5)	(2.4)	(2.4)	(2.5)
Never Had Sex/Missing	8.7	.0	.0	17.2	2.0	6.0	1.2	5.2	9.7
First Sex Before Age 16	29.0	46.1	27.7	23.8	25.8	34.2	56.0	28.6	34.1
Unweighted Number of Cases (n)	4,438	764	917	2,757	898	5,546	1,100	2,557	1,889

Notes: Values are percentages unless otherwise indicated. All figures are weighted by national sampling weights. SD = standard deviation.