Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics for Variables Used in Analysis of Moving Out and Back into the Parental Home by Residence at Origin: Transition into Adulthood Study, 2005–2011
| Variable | Description | Total | Living in Parental Home at t | Living Independently at t | |||
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Dependent Variables | |||||||
| Move out of parental home | 1=Moved out of parental home between t and t+2 | -- | .44 | -- | |||
| Move back into parental home | 1=Moved back into parental home between t and t+2 | -- | -- | .19 | |||
| Independent Variables | |||||||
| Demographic characteristics | |||||||
| Age | Respondent’s age in years at t | 20.16 | 1.97 | 19.53 | 1.90 | 20.79 | 1.84 |
| Female | 1=Respondent is female | .54 | .51 | .57 | |||
| Race | |||||||
| White | 1=Respondent is white | .47 | .41 | .53 | |||
| Black | 1=Respondent is black or African American | .40 | .44 | .35 | |||
| Hispanic or other races | 1=Respondent is Hispanic or other races | .13 | .15 | .12 | |||
| Life-course transitions | |||||||
| Primary activity transitions | |||||||
| High school to college | 1=In high school at t, in college at t+2 | .07 | .15 | .01 | |||
| Stable college student | 1= In college at t and t+2 | .18 | .12 | .23 | |||
| Stable working | 1=Working at t and t+2 | .28 | .26 | .30 | |||
| Stable idle | 1= Idle at t and t+2 | .05 | .06 | .04 | |||
| Student to working | 1=Student at t and working at t+2 | .17 | .15 | .19 | |||
| Student/working to idle | 1=Student or working at t, idle at t+2 | .09 | .10 | .07 | |||
| Working/idle to student | 1=Working or idle at t, student at t+2 | .09 | .09 | .09 | |||
| Idle to working | 1=Idle at t, working at t+2 | .07 | .07 | .06 | |||
| Relationship status transitions | |||||||
| Stable non-partnered | 1=Unmarried and not cohabiting at t and t+2 | .67 | .75 | .59 | |||
| Newly partnered | 1=Unmarried and not cohabiting at t, married or cohabiting at t+2 | .14 | .15 | .14 | |||
| Partnership dissolution | 1=Married or cohabiting at t, unmarried and not cohabiting at t+2 | .05 | .03 | .07 | |||
| Stable partnered | 1=Married or cohabiting at t, married and cohabiting at t+2 | .13 | .07 | .20 | |||
| Parenthood | 1=Has child(ren) at t | .19 | .15 | .22 | |||
| Socioeconomic resources | |||||||
| High school graduation or GED | 1= Has received high school degree or GED at t | .90 | .88 | .91 | |||
| Income | Respondent’s income in the calendar year preceding t (in logged thousands of 2004 dollars) | 1.45 | 1.18 | 1.34 | 1.32 | 1.56 | 1.22 |
| Receiving Welfare | 1=Receives payments from TANF, SSI, child support, or other source at t | .04 | .05 | .03 | |||
| Parental household and family characteristics | |||||||
| Household structure | |||||||
| Intact family | 1=Respondent resided with both biological parents at t | .50 | .48 | .52 | |||
| Biological and step parent | 1=Respondent resided with one biological and one step parent at t | .13 | .11 | .13 | |||
| Non-partnered biological parent | 1= Respondent resided with non-partnered biological parent at t | .37 | .40 | .34 | |||
| Mother’s education | Mother’s years of school completed when respondent was age 18 | 13.00 | 2.45 | 12.67 | 2.23 | 13.33 | 2.62 |
| Family income | Parents’ family income in the calendar year preceding t (in logged thousands of 2004 dollars) | 4.02 | .91 | 3.94 | .89 | 4.09 | .98 |
| Homeowner | 1=Parents own home at t | .71 | .68 | .73 | |||
| Coresident adult siblings | Number of adult siblings in parental home at t | .36 | .36 | .38 | .39 | .33 | .34 |
| Family connectivity | |||||||
| Help from family | Number of following five types of financial assistance received from family during prior 12 months at t: house/condo, rent/mortgage, personal vehicle, tuition, and expenses/bill | 1.08 | 1.17 | 0.97 | 1.04 | 1.19 | 1.28 |
| Personal responsibility scale | Responsibility taken on following four items on scale of 1 to 5 (1=Somebody else does this for me all the time, 5=I am completely responsible for this all the time) at t: earning own living, paying rent, paying bills, and managing money | 3.77 | 1.06 | 3.59 | 1.00 | 3.95 | 1.08 |
| Closeness to mother | Self reported emotional closeness to mother on a scale of 1 (not close at all) to 7 (very close) at t | 6.12 | 1.36 | 6.22 | 1.24 | 6.03 | 1.41 |
| Closeness to father | Self reported emotional closeness to father on a scale of 1 (not close at all) to 7 (very close) at t | 5.24 | 1.82 | 5.19 | 1.87 | 5.28 | 1.79 |
| Mother or father in poor health | 1=Either mother or father is in poor/fair health at t | .20 | .22 | .18 | |||
| Respondent in poor health | 1=Respondent is in poor/fair health at t | .08 | .08 | .07 | |||
| Physical victimization | 1=Respondent reports being physically victimized in past 2 years at t | .06 | .05 | .06 | |||
| Sexual victimization | 1=Respondent reports being sexually victimized in past 2 years at t | .02 | .02 | .02 | |||
| Temporal and geographic context | |||||||
| Year of observation | |||||||
| 2005 | 1=Migration interval begins in 2005 | .22 | .26 | .18 | |||
| 2007 | 1=Migration interval begins in 2007 | .34 | .33 | .34 | |||
| 2009 | 1=Migration interval begins in 2009 | .44 | .41 | .48 | |||
| Urbanization scale | Beale-Ross 10-point rural-urban continuum code for (1=completely rural, not adjacent to a metropolitan area, 10=central counties of metropolitan areas of 1 million+ population) for respondent’s residence at t | 7.67 | 2.32 | 7.64 | 2.37 | 7.69 | 2.30 |
| Region | |||||||
| Northeast | 1=Respondent lives in Northeast region at t | .13 | .13 | .13 | |||
| North Central | 1=Respondent lives in North Central region at t | .24 | .24 | .25 | |||
| South | 1=Respondent lives in South region at t | .45 | .48 | .43 | |||
| West | 1=Respondent lives in West region at t | .18 | .16 | .20 | |||
| N of person-periods | 2,997 | 1,506 | 1,491 | ||||
| N of persons | 1,521 | 1,068 | 918 | ||||
Note: t refers to beginning of migration interval, t+2 refers to end of migration interval. Standard deviations (SD) shown for continuous variables only.