Table 3.
Discrete-time event history analysis for first birth among women born prior and after 1960 in Britain, France and the Netherlands
| Britain | France | Netherlands | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <1960 | ≥1960 | <1960 | ≥1960 | <1960 | ≥1960 | |||||||
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 1 | Model 2 | |
| Age | 2.942*** | 1.419*** | 1.786*** | 1.237*** | 3.475*** | 2.002*** | 3.292*** | 1.921*** | 4.311*** | 1.891*** | 4.076*** | 2.088*** |
| Age squared | 0.981*** | 0.992*** | 0.990*** | 0.995*** | 0.977*** | 0.986*** | 0.980*** | 0.989*** | 0.975*** | 0.988*** | 0.978*** | 0.988*** |
| Married | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | ||||||
| Single | 0.028*** | 0.080*** | 0.054*** | 0.033*** | 0.013*** | 0.019*** | ||||||
| In cohabitation | 0.281*** | 0.352*** | 0.326*** | 0.338*** | 0.178*** | 0.173*** | ||||||
| Divorced/Separated/Widowed | 0.105*** | 0.164*** | 0.303*** | 0.127*** | 0.148*** | 0.070*** | ||||||
| No religion | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| Nominala Catholic | 1.175 | 1.423*** | 1.119 | 1.120 | 1.039 | 1.146 | 0.911 | 0.819** | 1.122 | 1.142* | 1.149* | 0.959 |
| Practicing Catholic | 0.914 | 1.214 | 1.182 | 1.098 | 0.834 | 1.075 | 1.303** | 1.026 | 0.949 | 1.254** | 1.689*** | 1.223 |
| Nominal Protestant | 0.954 | 0.996 | 1.049 | 0.918 | 1.334* | 1.441** | 1.010 | 0.940 | ||||
| Practicing Protestant | 0.874 | 0.966 | 1.116 | 0.980 | 1.625*** | 1.938*** | 2.537*** | 1.532*** | ||||
| Nominal Dutch R′ | 1.090 | 1.026 | 1.416** | 1.157 | ||||||||
| Practicing Dutch R′ | 1.076 | 1.149 | 1.742*** | 0.990 | ||||||||
| Enrolled in the education systemb | 0.601*** | 0.793** | 0.614*** | 0.754*** | 0.434*** | 0.627*** | 0.319*** | 0.489*** | ||||
| Lower secondary | 1.351*** | 1.289*** | 2.523*** | 2.512*** | 1.223*** | 1.070 | 1.342*** | 1.394*** | 1.423*** | 1.082 | 1.729*** | 1.533*** |
| Upper secondary | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| Tertiary education | 0.864** | 0.950 | 0.680*** | 0.712*** | 0.870* | 1.004 | 0.646*** | 0.682*** | 0.588*** | 0.803*** | 0.604*** | 0.745*** |
| Foreign born | 0.797 | 1.068 | 0.670** | 0.657** | 1.110 | 1.042 | 1.062 | 1.475*** | 1.176 | 1.439** | 1.228 | 1.759*** |
| Pseudo R 2 | 0.10 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.25 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.14 | 0.32 | 0.17 | 0.31 |
| N (women years) | 24,603 | 26,413 | 34,280 | 29,721 | 31,317 | 27,244 | ||||||
The exposure period for the transition to first birth includes women aged 15–45. The model also controls for time period in 5 years intervals (not shown here)
aSee comment “a” in Table 1
bTiming of enrollment is not available for the Netherlands