Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the study population: Finnish men, N = 37,082
| Parity | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 (SE) | 1 (SE) | 2 (SE) | 3 (SE) | 4 (SE) | 5 + (SE) | Total | N | |
| Parity distribution by level of education (%) | ||||||||
| Level of education | ||||||||
| Basic | 23.8 (0.003) | 18.7 (0.003) | 33.6 (0.004) | 15.9 (0.003) | 5.4 (0.002) | 2.6 (0.001) | 100.0 | 16,561 |
| Lower secondary | 18.0 (0.004) | 19.7 (0.004) | 38.3 (0.005) | 16.7 (0.004) | 5.2 (0.002) | 2.2 (0.002) | 100.0 | 10,275 |
| Upper secondary | 14.3 (0.005) | 17.8 (0.005) | 43.2 (0.007) | 17.8 (0.005) | 5.0 (0.003) | 2.0 (0.002) | 100.0 | 5073 |
| Tertiary | 12.1 (0.005) | 14.8 (0.005) | 42.1 (0.007) | 22.4 (0.006) | 6.1 (0.003) | 2.5 (0.002) | 100.0 | 5173 |
| Total | 19.3 (0.002) | 18.3 (0.002) | 37.4 (0.003) | 17.3 (0.002) | 5.4 (0.001) | 2.4 (0.001) | 100.0 | 37,082 |
| N | 7139 | 6791 | 13,865 | 6407 | 1997 | 883 | 37,082 | |
| % | M | SD | % | M | SD | % | M | SD | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution of explanatory variables (%) and number of children accordingly (M, SD) | |||||||||||
| Living area in childhood | Parental level of education | Level of education | |||||||||
| Helsinki region | 8.0 | 1.76 | 1.23 | Less than primary | 13.5 | 1.75 | 1.70 | Basic | 44.7 | 1.71 | 1.50 |
| Rest of Uusimaa | 5.7 | 1.75 | 1.30 | Primary school | 75.6 | 1.81 | 1.42 | Lower secondary | 27.7 | 1.80 | 1.31 |
| Western Finland | 39.6 | 1.83 | 1.34 | More than primary | 10.9 | 1.90 | 1.30 | Upper secondary | 13.7 | 1.90 | 1.30 |
| Eastern Finland | 42.3 | 1.81 | 1.58 | Parental occupational position | Tertiary | 14.0 | 2.06 | 1.35 | |||
| Northern Finland | 4.4 | 1.86 | 1.66 | Worker | 42.5 | 1.76 | 1.40 | Occupational position | |||
| Family type in childhood | Professional/administrative | 16.0 | 1.84 | 1.31 | Manual worker | 47.0 | 1.73 | 1.39 | |||
| Two parents and children | 93.0 | 1.82 | 1.46 | Farmer, <10 hect. | 24.7 | 1.82 | 1.62 | Lower white collar | 18.5 | 1.91 | 1.23 |
| Mother and children | 6.2 | 1.72 | 1.33 | Farmer, ≥10 hect. | 7.8 | 1.94 | 1.50 | Upper white collar | 16.2 | 2.07 | 1.30 |
| Father and children | 0.8 | 1.61 | 1.34 | Self-employed/other/unknown | 9.0 | 1.87 | 1.39 | Farmer/self-employed | 10.3 | 2.04 | 1.60 |
| Sibship size | Other/unknown | 8.1 | 1.26 | 1.47 | |||||||
| 0 | 15.3 | 1.72 | 1.25 | Parental home ownership | Income | ||||||
| 1–2 | 48.1 | 1.81 | 1.37 | Owner | 59.3 | 1.82 | 1.48 | 1st quintile | 20.0 | 1.47 | 1.54 |
| 3– | 36.6 | 1.85 | 1.63 | Renter | 34.7 | 1.79 | 1.34 | 2nd quintile | 20.0 | 1.82 | 1.29 |
| Year of birth | Other, unknown | 6.1 | 1.80 | 1.75 | 3rd quintile | 20.0 | 1.87 | 1.38 | |||
| 1940 | 6.3 | 1.84 | 1.28 | Crowding in childhood | 4th quintile | 20.0 | 1.87 | 1.31 | |||
| 1941 | 8.7 | 1.86 | 1.33 | <2 | 32.9 | 1.84 | 1.29 | 5th quintile | 20.0 | 2.03 | 1.29 |
| 1942 | 6.1 | 1.81 | 1.34 | 2 < 3 | 32.5 | 1.81 | 1.48 | Marital history | |||
| 1943 | 7.4 | 1.83 | 1.36 | ≥3 | 34.6 | 1.78 | 1.57 | Never married | 17.5 | 0.53 | 1.04 |
| 1944 | 7.9 | 1.83 | 1.33 | Standard of living childhood | Intact married | 51.9 | 2.09 | 1.38 | |||
| 1945 | 9.6 | 1.82 | 1.30 | Poor | 28.2 | 1.78 | 1.60 | Divorced/widowed | 19.7 | 1.92 | 1.15 |
| 1946 | 11.1 | 1.79 | 1.30 | Modest | 46.4 | 1.81 | 1.45 | Remarried | 10.9 | 2.36 | 1.34 |
| 1947 | 11.2 | 1.78 | 1.35 | Good | 25.4 | 1.85 | 1.27 | ||||
| 1948 | 11.0 | 1.78 | 1.36 | ||||||||
| 1949 | 10.5 | 1.82 | 1.44 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 10.3 | 1.82 | 1.44 | ||||||||
M: mean, SD: standard deviation, SE: standard error