Table 5.

Multinomial logistic regression results predicting marriage omission from one of two survey waves among men and women (reference group = reported terminated marriages), 2006 and 2010 MLSFH

	Men		Women
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Marriage Characteristics
Region
Central (ref.)	---	---	---
South	0.15 (0.28)	0.23 (0.28)	0.20 (0.24)
North	0.07 (0.27)	0.01 (0.27)	-0.03 (0.30)
Marriage order
First (ref.)	---		---
Second	0.01 (0.23)		0.25 (0.26)
Third or higher	0.78* (0.35)		0.05 (0.38)
Short duration marriage	0.63* (0.26)	0.60* (0.26)	1.16*** (0.23)
Time since marriage began	0.02 (0.01)	0.01 (0.01)	0.00 (0.01)
Entered into polygamous marriage		0.60* (0.27)
Individual Characteristics
Age	-0.01 (0.05)	-0.01 (0.05)	0.17*** (0.05)
Age squared	0.00 (0.00)	0.00 (0.00)	-0.00*** (0.00)
Educational attainment
None (ref.)	---	---	---
Some primary	−0.47 (0.29)	−0.51 (0.30)	0.33 (0.23)
Completed primary	−0.52 (0.38)	−0.56 (0.38)	0.47 (0.46)
Secondary	−0.51 (0.43)	−0.57 (0.43)	0.69 (0.46)
Inconsistency score	0.35* (0.14)	0.38** (0.15)	0.81*** (0.13)
Survey Characteristics
Length of survey time, 2010
Middle (ref.)	---	---	---
Short	−0.23 (0.26)	−0.27 (0.26)	0.33 (0.21)
Long	0.22 (0.23)	0.23 (0.23)	0.31 (0.22)
Degree of cooperation, 2006
Good (ref.)	---	---	---
Very good	0.11 (0.23)	0.07 (0.23)	0.34 (0.20)
Average or bad	0.25 (0.30)	0.19 (0.31)	−0.02 (0.26)
Degree of cooperation, 2010
Good (ref.)	---	---	---
Very good	0.20 (0.28)	0.21 (0.29)	−0.13 (0.26)
Average or bad	0.30 (0.23)	0.29 (0.23)	−0.18 (0.21)
Interviewer Characteristics, 2010
Female	−0.44 (0.24)	−0.44 (0.24)	−0.23 (0.18)
Ever-married	0.20 (0.22)	0.16 (0.21)	−0.06 (0.20)
Prior interviewing experience	−0.86*** (0.25)	−0.86*** (0.25)	0.24 (0.22)
Constant	−0.29 (1.18)	−0.20 (1.20)	−6.07*** (1.02)
Number of marriages	1,177	1,177	1,525
Pseudo R2	0.17	0.17	0.20

Note: Robust standard errors are in parentheses. Omitted category = matched-current marriages. Analysis is restricted to marriages that began before 2006.

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001.