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Published in final edited form as: J Women Aging. 2017 Feb 2;30(1):62–74. doi: 10.1080/08952841.2016.1259445

Table 2.

Frequency distribution of ADL-impaired by parity, early childbearing and late childbearing

	ADL impaired			χ²
	No	Yes	Total	χ²
(1) Parity
One to three children	3379	735	4114
One to three children	82.13%	17.87%	100%	124.11^***
Four children or more	1375	603	1978
Four children or more	69.51%	30.49%	100%
(2) Early childbearing
First birth at or after 21	4040	1059	5099
First birth at or after 21	79.23%	20.77%	100%	26.04^***
First birth before 21	714	279	993
First birth before 21	71.90%	28.10%	100%
(3) Late childbearing
Last birth at or after 35	890	406	1296
Last birth at or after 35	68.67%	31.33%	100%	84.22^***
Last birth before 35	3864	932	4796
Last birth before 35	80.57%	19.43%	100%

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