Table 2.
Relative Risk Ratios from Multinomial Logistic Regression Event History Models Predicting Women’s Cohabitation Outcomes (Model 1)
| Married vs. intact | Dissolved vs. intact | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stepfamily status (ref=no stepchildren) | ||||
| Any stepchildren | 0.80 | *** | 1.07 | |
| Socioeconomic & demographic characteristics | ||||
| Race-ethnicity(ref=white) | ||||
| Black | 0.56 | *** | 1.15 | * |
| Native-bornHispanic | 0.66 | *** | 0.85 | * |
| Foreign-bornHispanic | 0.59 | *** | 0.43 | *** |
| Other | 1.02 | * | 0.93 | |
| Age (time-varying) | 1.44 | *** | 0.97 | *** |
| HS grad (time-varying) | 1.43 | *** | 0.98 | |
| Family structure at age 14 (ref=Two bio parents) | ||||
| Stepfamily | 0.92 | 1.20 | * | |
| Other family | 0.96 | 1.09 | ||
| Maternal education (ref=HS) | ||||
| <HS or missing | 0.98 | 0.93 | ||
| Some college | 1.03 | 1.15 | * | |
| College or higher | 0.94 | 1.13 | * | |
| Prior & current union characteristics | ||||
| Respondent previously married | 1.24 | *** | 0.94 | |
| Partner previously married | 1.09 | 0.89 | ||
| Engaged at start | 2.36 | *** | 0.76 | *** |
| Cohabitation order (ref=first cohabitation) | ||||
| Second cohabitation | 0.93 | 1.00 | ||
| Third or higher cohabitation | 1.07 | 1.18 | ||
| Period & duration | ||||
| Time period (ref=1995–1999) | ||||
| 1984 or earlier | 1.33 | * | 0.84 | |
| 1985–1989 | 1.18 | 0.84 | * | |
| 1990–1994 | 1.18 | * | 0.96 | |
| 2000–2004 | 0.88 | 1.08 | ||
| 2005–2009 | 0.81 | * | 1.58 | *** |
| 2010 or later | 0.81 | 2.17 | *** | |
| Duration (ref=13–24 months, time-varying) | ||||
| ≤ 6 months | 0.79 | *** | 0.83 | ** |
| 7–12 months | 0.93 | 1.06 | ||
| 25–48 months | 0.86 | * | 1.17 | * |
| ≥ 49 months | 0.54 | *** | 1.02 | |
| Constant | 0.01 | *** | 0.02 | *** |
| Person-months | 434,653 | |||
| Cohabitations | 13,417 | |||
| Women | 9,367 | |||
*
p≤.05
**
p≤.01
***
p≤.001