Table 1.
Sociodemographic characteristics of children and parents in different living arrangements (n = 3656)
| Children's living arrangements | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intact family | Joint physical custody | Mostly with one parent | Only with one parent | |||||
| Sociodemographic variables | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Child gender | ||||||||
| Girl | 1639 | 48.6 | 62 | 45.6 | 30 | 38.0 | 37 | 51.4 |
| Boy | 1730 | 51.4 | 74 | 54.4 | 49 | 62.0 | 35 | 48.6 |
| Child age | ||||||||
| 3 | 1007 | 29.9 | 28 | 20.6 | 25 | 31.6 | 15 | 20.8 |
| 4 | 1043 | 31.0 | 48 | 35.3 | 18 | 22.8 | 29 | 40.3 |
| 5 | 1319 | 39.2 | 60 | 44.1 | 36 | 45.6 | 28 | 38.9 |
| Parent gender | ||||||||
| Female (mother) | 1817 | 53.9 | 80 | 58.8 | 57 | 72.2 | 68 | 94.4 |
| Male (father) | 1552 | 46.1 | 56 | 41.2 | 22 | 27.8 | 4 | 5.6 |
| Parental highest level of education | ||||||||
| Less than high school | 76 | 2.3 | 4 | 2.9 | 6 | 7.6 | 7 | 9.7 |
| High school | 998 | 29.6 | 65 | 47.8 | 39 | 49.4 | 30 | 41.7 |
| University | 2295 | 68.1 | 67 | 49.3 | 34 | 43.0 | 35 | 48.6 |
| Parent country of birth | ||||||||
| Sweden | 2973 | 88.2 | 124 | 91.2 | 68 | 86.1 | 61 | 84.7 |
| Other | 396 | 11.8 | 12 | 8.8 | 11 | 13.9 | 11 | 15.3 |
| Parent age (mean, SD) | 37.2 | 5.4 | 35.9 | 5.7 | 36.2 | 6.9 | 35.9 | 6.5 |