Table 5.

Hazard ratios for the risk of first maternal absence by cause: Children born into single-mother families

	All Cause	Death	Migration	Relocation	Formation
Male Child	0.93 (0.06)	0.87 (0.28)	1.09 (0.12)	0.88 (0.15)	0.80 (0.09)
Child’s Birth Order	1.02 (0.04)	1.35 (0.22)	1.02 (0.06)	1.01 (0.09)	0.89 (0.07)
Mother’s Age	0.92*** (0.01)	0.97 (0.05)	0.91*** (0.01)	0.96 (0.02)	0.89*** (0.02)
Mother’s Education	1.00 (0.01)	0.99 (0.04)	1.01 (0.02)	1.02 (0.03)	0.99 (0.02)
Mother’s Occupation (unemployed)
Agriculture	1.19 (0.11)	0.44 (0.22)	1.08 (0.16)	1.06 (0.25)	1.53** (0.23)
Employed	1.29** (0.12)	1.36 (0.57)	1.07 (0.16)	1.49 (0.31)	1.40* (0.20)
Wealth Quintile (lowest)
Low	1.05 (0.12)	0.79 (0.41)	0.91 (0.17)	1.12 (0.32)	1.03 (0.19)
Middle	1.04 (0.12)	1.11 (0.59)	1.16 (0.20)	1.07 (0.29)	0.88 (0.16)
High	1.09 (0.12)	0.85 (0.54)	1.25 (0.22)	1.08 (0.29)	0.95 (0.17)
Highest	1.00 (0.12)	1.58 (0.75)	0.91 (0.17)	1.05 (0.30)	0.95 (0.17)
Coresident Adults	0.94*** (0.01)	1.01 (0.06)	0.98 (0.02)	0.69*** (0.05)	0.99 (0.02)
Children	5,805	5,805	5,805	5,805	5,805
Events	1,099	57	448	195	399
Deviance	10,470.55	889.46	4,937.97	2,631.14	4,467.98
Child Age Intervals	y [0–8], (8–10]	y [0–1], (1–3], (3–10]	y [0–7], (7–10]	y [0–8], (8–10]	y [0 –6], (6–10]

Notes: Results are from piecewise exponential models. Robust standard errors, including weights for sibship size, are shown in parentheses. y indicates yearly age intervals for the range specified.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001