Table 4.

Logistic regression estimates for additional childbirth within 3 years for women aged 20–42 in Britain, France and the Netherlands. The models for France and the Netherlands include a propensity score for attrition (see "Appendix")

	Britain	France	The Netherlands
Religious groupa
No religion	1.000	1.000	1.000
Nominal Catholic	0.680	1.084	1.794**
Practicing Catholic	0.978	2.421*	0.903
Nominal Protestant	1.070		2.404
Practicing Protestant	1.047		3.017**
Nominal Dutch R′			1.959
Practicing Dutch R′			0.953
Age
Age	1.764***	1.183	1.731
Age squared	0.987***	0.995	0.987**
Marital status
Married	1.000	1.000	1.000
Cohabiting	0.866	0.552**	0.864
Single	0.749	0.145***	0.253**
Education
Lower secondary	1.705**	1.426	0.982
Upper secondary	1.000	1.000	1.000
Tertiary	1.513**	1.478	2.691**
Employment status
In paid employment	0.922	0.573*	0.975
Nativity
Foreign born	1.364	1.269	2.594
Age at first birth	1.109**	0.974	1.153**
Birth interval
3–5 years	1.000	1.000	1.000
5–7 years	1.086	1.682*	1.232
7–10 years	0.824	0.573	0.730
10+ years	0.736	0.293*	0.473
Parity
1 child	1.000	1.000	1.000
2 children	0.359***	0.168***	0.332***
3+ children	0.462**	0.088***	0.298***
N	1299	817	822
Pseudo-R 2	0.25	0.33	0.35

* p < 0.1; ** p < 0.05; *** p < 0.01

^aSee comment “a” in Table 1