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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Q. 2018 Feb 20;99(3):1158–1182. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12482

Table 2.

Means on Nonresident Father Involvement by Race/Ethnicity over Years 1–9 after a Nonmarital Birth

1-Year 3-Year


Black White Hispanic Black White Hispanic
M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)

Number of Days Saw Child Past Month (Range=0–30) 13.09a (13.04) 6.96b (10.55) 9.28b (10.95) 9.01a (11.86) 6.59b (10.33) 5.40b (9.24)
Spent One or More Hours in Past Month (Range=0–5) 3.19a (1.70) 2.32b (1.51) 2.67b (1.63) 2.51a (1.63) 2.28a,b (1.56) 2.09b (1.56)
Engagement in Activies (Range=0–7) 2.24a (2.27) 1.08b (1.76) 1.19b (1.45) 1.39a (1.82) 0.90b (1.39) 0.78b (1.31)
Sharing Responsibilities (Range=1–4) 2.37a (1.20) 1.63b (0.96) 2.01c (1.09) 1.95a (1.11) 1.65b (0.95) 1.58b (0.94)
Coparenting (Range=1–3) 2.48a (0.56) 1.93b (0.76) 2.24c (0.62) 2.24a (0.67) 2.03b (0.73) 2.00b (0.68)
n 1,063 135 360 1,155 150 377
Unmarried (at birth) fathers who are nonresident at wave (%) 49.6 33.8 39.0 65.0 42.5 49.6

5-Year 9-Year


Black White Hispanic Black White Hispanic
M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)

Number of Days Saw Child Past Month (Range=0–30) 7.42a (10.56) 7.15a (9.62) 3.85b (8.23) 5.92a (9.15) 6.06a (8.70) 2.84b (5.74)
Spent One or More Hours in Past Month (Range=0–5) 2.39a (1.55) 2.47a (1.45) 1.80b (1.33) 2.04a (1.38) 2.11a (1.35) 1.57b (1.04)
Engagement in Activies (Range=0–7) 1.16a (1.69) 1.00a (1.45) 0.48b (0.98) 0.74a (1.26) 0.61a,b (1.11) 0.38b (0.88)
Sharing Responsibilities (Range=1–4) 1.82a (1.07) 1.62b (0.93) 1.41b (0.78) 1.04a (0.27) 1.11b (0.48) 1.01a (0.12)
Coparenting (Range=1–3) 2.24a (0.61) 2.02b (0.72) 2.12b (0.71) 2.25a (0.63) 2.02b (0.62) 2.10b (0.69)
n 1,263 164 437 1,115 153 364
Unmarried (at birth) fathers who are nonresident at wave (%) 71.0 51.7 55.3 78.2 56.6 53.8

Note: All figures are weighted by city sampling weights for each respective year. M: mean; SD: standard deviation. Means in the same row that do not share subscripts differ at p<. 05 in the Bonferroni comparison.