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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2014 Apr 30;30:1339–1366. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.47

Table 4.

Estimates from models for migration

Variable Single process Multi process

Coeff. O.R. Coeff. O.R.
Marriage
  Married 1 year before migration .60 (.16) *** 1.82 .28 (.08) ** 1.33
  Total number of marriages −.08 (.05) .92 −.01 (.02) ns .99
Duration
  Duration to migration −.11 (.02) *** .90 −.09 (.01) *** .91
  Squared duration to migration .01 (.00) ** 1.01 .01 (.00) *** 1.01
  Cubical duration to migration −.00 (.00) *** 1.00 −.00 (.00) *** 1.00
Individual characteristics
  Female −.06 (.04) ns .94 −.05 (.02) ** .95
  Black −.49 (.04) *** .61 −.21 (.02) *** .81
  Hispanic −.31 (.05) *** .73 −.14 (.02) *** .87
  High school or equivalent .52 (.04) *** 1.69 .26 (.02) *** 1.29
  College or more .27 (.04) *** 1.31 .18 (.02) *** 1.20
  Employed part-time .21 (.04) ** 1.24 .11 (.02) *** 1.12
  Employed full-time −.35 (.05) *** .70 −.15 (.02) *** .86
  Living in metro areas −.20 (.04) *** .82 −.09 (.02) *** .92
  Giving a birth −.04 (.08) ns .96 −.04 (.04) ns .97
  Total number of children −.13 (.02) *** .88 −.04 (.01) *** .97
Household characteristics
  R lived in an intact family until age 18 −.17 (.03) *** .84 −.08 (.01) *** .92
  Mom’s education .05 (.01) *** 1.05 .02 (.00) *** 1.02
County characteristics
  Sex ratio (%) −.00 (.01) ns 1.00 −.00 (.00) ns 1.00
  Population with a college degree/higher (%) .02 (.00) *** 1.02 .01 (.00) *** 1.01
  Unemployment rates (%) .01 (.01) ns 1.01 .00 (.00) ns 1.00
  Poverty rates (%) .01 (.00) *** 1.01 .00 (.00) *** 1.00
  Crime rates (%) −.01 (.00) ns .99 −.00 (.00) ns 1.00
  Intercept −2.90 (.49) *** .06 −1.31 (.19) *** .27

Log likelihood −22900.9 −46092.4
Wald Chi2 (22) 1709.5 4303.4
Person-years 87,931
Number of observations 7,827

Notes: Numbers in parentheses are standard errors.

ns

= not significant,

p≤. 10,

*

p≤.05,

**

p≤.01,

***

p≤.001