TABLE 3.

Odds ratios from multivariate multinomial regression analysis assessing associations between current union status and selected characteristics

Characteristic	Married vs. cohabiting	Married vs. not in union	Cohabiting vs. not in union
Past risk group
Never high-risk (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Experimenter	0.64*	0.98	1.53*
Repeater	0.76	1.02	1.35
Race/ethnicity
White	2.54***	1.52*	0.60*
Black (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Hispanic	1.77*	1.14	0.64
Mother’s education
≥high school/GED (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
<high school/missing	1.26	1.05	0.84
Education
≥high school	2.73***	1.59*	0.58*
<high school/GED (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Currently employed
Yes	1.28	2.12***	1.65
No (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Current/most recent wage
Lowest quartile	0.46***	0.37***	0.81
Top three quartiles (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00

^*p<.05.

^***p<.001.

Note: ref=reference group.