Table 1.
Means/Percentages of Selected Demographic Characteristics of At-Home Parents and Breadwinner Parents (N=4,633)
| At-Home Father | At-Home Mother | Breadwinner Father | Breadwinner Mother | |||||
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| Age (in Years) | ||||||||
| Mother | 39.35 | ab | 36.84 | ac | 37.13 | bd | 38.71 | cd |
| SD | 8.11 | 8.30 | 7.93 | 8.17 | ||||
| Father | 43.59 | ab | 39.53 | ac | 39.30 | bd | 41.67 | cd |
| SD | 10.26 | 8.69 | 8.16 | 9.99 | ||||
| Couple-level Education (%) | ||||||||
| Both college | 20.17 | ab | 29.41 | ac | 27.48 | bd | 20.50 | cd |
| Neither college | 52.09 | 53.97 | 56.06 | 57.48 | ||||
| Mother college, father no college | 22.88 | ab | 5.51 | ac | 6.64 | bd | 18.79 | cd |
| Father college, mother no college | 4.86 | ab | 11.11 | ac | 9.83 | bd | 3.24 | cd |
| Couple-level Race (%) | ||||||||
| Both White | 44.68 | ab | 54.76 | a | 55.15 | b | 49.85 | |
| Both non-White | 43.74 | 37.66 | 36.76 | 39.03 | ||||
| White/Non-White | 11.58 | 7.58 | 8.10 | 11.11 | ||||
| Respondent’s Diary Day Work Hours | -- | -- | 6.17 | b | 5.94 | c | ||
| SD | 4.37 | 4.13 | ||||||
| Respondent’s Diary Day Work Hours (conditional on doing any) | -- | -- | 8.30 | b | 8.02 | c | ||
| SD | 2.87 | 2.28 | ||||||
| Intention to Find Work (%) | ||||||||
| Neither | 41.61 | ab | 72.95 | ac | 82.99 | bd | 64.85 | cd |
| Husband | 58.39 | ab | -- | -- | 35.15 | cd | ||
| Wife | -- | 27.05 | ac | 17.01 | bd | -- | ||
| Retired (%) | ||||||||
| Respondent | 6.14 | ab | 0.33 | ac | 0.00 | b | 0.00 | c |
| Spouse | 0.00 | 0.00 | c | 0.04 | d | 3.00 | cd | |
| Physical Difficulty (%) | ||||||||
| Respondent | 13.11 | ab | 2.80 | a | 0.26 | b | 1.27 | |
| Spouse | 0.00 | ab | 0.54 | ac | 2.86 | bd | 7.36 | cd |
| Family Income (%) | ||||||||
| <$25,000 | 11.89 | 16.34 | 15.31 | 18.44 | ||||
| $25,000-49,999 | 32.54 | ab | 28.33 | a | 28.79 | b | 28.50 | |
| $50,000-74,999 | 25.43 | ab | 18.03 | ac | 19.26 | bd | 25.01 | cd |
| $75,000+ | 30.14 | ab | 37.30 | ac | 36.64 | bd | 28.05 | cd |
| Number of Children Under 18 | 1.72 | ab | 2.12 | ac | 2.13 | bd | 1.78 | cd |
| SD | 0.77 | 1.08 | 1.03 | 0.88 | ||||
| Age of Youngest Child Under 18 | 8.00 | ab | 5.78 | ac | 5.93 | bd | 7.85 | cd |
| SD | 5.10 | 5.23 | 4.86 | 5.34 | ||||
| Infant (<6 months) in household (%) | 2.27 | 3.22 | c | 3.73 | d | 0.69 | cd | |
| Has non-residential child under 18 (%) | 2.13 | 0.67 | 1.62 | d | 0.41 | d | ||
| Has non-own child under 18 in household (%) | 4.33 | 4.56 | 3.30 | 3.91 | ||||
| N= | 326 | 1953 | 1954 | 400 | ||||
Source: Authors’ calculations using the 2008-2012 American Time Use Survey (ATUS). Means and percentages are weighted.
a
=At-home Fathers different than At-home Mothers (p<.05).
b
=At-home Fathers different than Breadwinner Fathers (p<.05).
c
=At-home Mothers different than Breadwinner Mothers (p<.05).
d
=Breadwinner Fathers different than Breadwinner Mothers (p<.05).