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Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2015 Dec 15;41(4):607–628. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00087.x

TABLE 4.

Logit model of effect of identified factors on likelihood of premarital cohabitation for women

Model 1: Education + demographic characteristics Model 2: Model 1 + family background Model 3: Model 2 + institutional factors Model 4: Model 3 + regional variation
Respondent’s years of schooling 0.022**
(0.008)		 0.017*
(0.009)		 0.013
(0.010)		 0.007
(0.010)
Father’s education (Reference: Primary school)
 Middle school 0.064
(0.119)		 0.043
(0.119)		 0.033
(0.119)
 High school 0.371**
(0.148)		 0.378**
(0.148)		 0.378**
(0.149)
 College 0.071
(0.270)		 0.141
(0.272)		 0.158
(0.273)
 Missing −0.045
(0.134)		 −0.059
(0.135)		 −0.061
(0.135)
Father’s CCP membership (Reference: Non-member)
 Member −0.077
(0.121)		 −0.078
(0.121)		 −0.073
(0.121)
 Missing 0.145
(0.115)		 0.099
(0.117)		 0.107
(0.117)
Residence/migration (Reference: Always lived in rural area)
 Always lived in urban area 0.0645
(0.128)		 0.0133
(0.129)
 Rural–urban migrant 0.405***
(0.095)		 0.344***
(0.097)
CCP member −0.398*
(0.243)		 −0.384*
(0.243)
Birth cohort (Reference: Before 1940)
 1940–1949 0.134
(0.301)		 0.161
(0.302)		 0.197
(0.302)		 0.211
(0.302)
 1950–1959 0.320
(0.271)		 0.352
(0.272)		 0.393
(0.272)		 0.412
(0.272)
 1960–1969 1.294***
(0.254)		 1.318***
(0.256)		 1.358***
(0.257)		 1.395***
(0.258)
 1970–1979 2.547***
(0.250)		 2.551***
(0.253)		 2.570***
(0.255)		 2.611***
(0.255)
Minority −0.288*
(0.157)		 −0.301*
(0.157)		 −0.278*
(0.157)		 −0.222
(0.158)
County-level GDP per capita (10,000 yuan) 0.238***
(0.069)
Region (Reference: Small provinces)
 Shanghai 0.972***
(0.114)		 0.960***
(0.114)		 0.885***
(0.117)		 0.672***
(0.130)
 Liaoning −0.158
(0.143)		 −0.161
(0.143)		 −0.150
(0.144)		 −0.227
(0.145)
 Henan −0.473***
(0.147)		 −0.475***
(0.147)		 −0.483***
(0.147)		 −0.435***
(0.148)
 Gansu −1.802***
(0.259)		 −1.798***
(0.259)		 −1.763***
(0.259)		 −1.570***
(0.265)
 Guangdong 0.533***
(0.116)		 0.527***
(0.116)		 0.474***
(0.117)		 0.436***
(0.118)
Constant −4.523***
(0.243)		 −4.558***
(0.249)		 −4.643***
(0.251)		 −4.834***
(0.257)
Observations 15,052 15,052 15,052 15,052
***

p<0.01,

**

p<0.05,

*

p<0.1

NOTE: Logit coefficients are shown in main entries of the table, with standard errors in parentheses.