Table 4.

Model 2: Multinomial regression predicting the effects of employment uncertainty, controlling for socio-demographic variables, on fertility intentions and fertility intention–realization among the low- and medium-education groups; beta coefficients

	Intended parents		Stable yes		Abandoners		Postponers
	B	Sig.	B	Sig.	B	Sig.	B	Sig.
Explanatory variables
Male employment uncertainty (ref. stability)
Decline	−0.763	0.136	−0.112	0.797	0.301	0.644	−0.601	0.284
Rise	−0.540	0.261	−0.586	0.219	0.201	0.757	−0.530	0.335
Female employment uncertainty (ref. stability)
Decline	0.263	0.522	0.348	0.395	0.752	0.155	−0.295	0.657
Rise	0.136	0.713	−0.690	0.133	−0.185	0.753	−0.178	0.737
Control variables
Age	−0.155	0.000	−0.141	0.000	−0.103	0.013	−0.142	0.000
Parity (ref. 2 or more children)
0 child	1.628	0.000	2.446	0.000	0.230	0.711	1.557	0.003
1 child	2.344	0.000	3.028	0.000	1.536	0.005	1.312	0.038
Income CHF (log)
Individual	−0.053	0.857	0.206	0.550	0.943	0.059	0.032	0.938
Household	0.105	0.824	0.287	0.572	−1.380	0.037	−0.061	0.916
Sex (ref. women)	0.651	0.124	0.386	0.365	−0.854	0.193	1.060	0.041
Year of the first interview (ref. 2002–2003)
2004–2006	−0.244	0.4830	−0.534	0.137	0.502	0.391	0.055	0.902
2007–2009	0.331	0.389	0.286	0.452	1.559	0.007	0.467	0.349
Constant	1.116	0.804	−4.652	0.345	5.356	0.397	1.060	0.041

The reference group is the stable no group. R ² = 0.351 (Nagelkerke). Model X ² (48) = 256.285, p ≤ 0.001