Table 2. Cox regression estimates (e B) and 95% confidence intervals for survival models explaining post-reproductive mortality among ever-married women with children born between 1850 and 1910.
| Model 1 | Model 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | CI | b | CI | |
| Social power | 0.98 | 0.96–1.00 | 0.98 | 0.96–1.00 |
| # reproductive years married | 1.00 | 1.00–1.01 | 1.00 | 1.00–1.01 |
| Age difference husband and wife | 1.01 a | 1.00–1.01 | 1.01 a | 1.00–1.01 |
| Experienced infant death | 1.13 c | 1.06–1.21 | 1.13 c | 1.06–1.21 |
| Widowed | 1.00 | 0.94–1.07 | 1.00 | 0.94–1.07 |
| Husband died after 1994 | 0.42 b | 0.24–0.74 | 0.42 b | 0.24–0.74 |
| Year of birth (per 10 year) | 0.87 c | 0.86–0.89 | 0.81 c | 0.77–0.85 |
| Two children (refcat = one child) | 0.89 a | 0.80–0.97 | 0.84 b | 0.76–0.93 |
| Three or four children | 0.97 | 0.88–1.06 | 0.93 | 0.85–1.02 |
| Five or more children | 0.98 | 0.90–1.08 | 0.94 | 0.86–1.04 |
| Two children * year of birth | 1.11 b | 1.03–1.19 | ||
| Three or four children * year of birth | 1.11 b | 1.04–1.19 | ||
| Five or more children * year of birth | 1.07 a | 1.01–1.14 | ||
| N | 5,474 | 5,474 | ||
| df | 10 | 13 | ||
| -2 log likelihood | 82,252.2 | 82,240.9 | ||
a p < 0.05.
b p < 0.01.
c p < 0.001.