. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2019 Feb;56(1):129–149. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0739-7

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for the full sample and 5 clusters

	Full sample	Early Switchers	Consistent Childless	Late Switchers	High to None	Gradual
Population share (%)	100	32	24	20	13	11
Number of cases	645	204	142	134	88	77

Demographic characteristics
Race/ethnicity							^*
White	0.83	0.83	0.89^a	0.82	0.80	0.75^a
Black	0.13	0.13	0.08^a	0.14	0.15	0.21^a
Hispanic	0.04	0.05	0.03^a	0.05	0.05	0.04^a

Highest grade completed at age 30							^*
Less than high school	0.05	0.07^a	0.07^b	0.05	0.00^a,b	0.04
High school	0.31	0.37^a	0.32^b	0.25	0.17^a,b	0.35
Some college	0.28	0.26^a	0.32^b	0.30	0.23^a,b	0.28
BA/BS	0.21	0.16^a	0.16^b	0.27	0.34^a,b	0.18
Graduate	0.15	0.14^a	0.12^b	0.13	0.27^a,b	0.14

Foreign-born	0.04	0.03	0.01	0.07	0.05	0.04

R raised in a rural area	0.23	0.29^a	0.26	0.13^a	0.13	0.26	^*

Religion R raised with							^**
Protestant	0.34	0.43	0.32	0.30	0.28^a	0.26^a
Fundamentalist Christian	0.20	0.18	0.26	0.19	0.08^a	0.34^a
Catholic	0.26	0.25	0.22	0.26	0.39^a	0.23^a
Other	0.19	0.14	0.19	0.25	0.25^a	0.17^a

Childhood family context
Family structure at age 14
Lived with both parents	0.80	0.83	0.74	0.81	0.85	0.74
Lived with mother only	0.11	0.08	0.16	0.08	0.10	0.14
Other family type	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.10	0.06	0.12

Number of siblings	2.87 (0.08)	2.95 (0.13)	2.79 (0.16)	2.67 (0.16)	3.19 (0.33)	2.80 (0.24)

Sex role orientation
Mother worked when R was 14	0.55	0.52	0.54	0.61	0.57	0.57

Gender attitudes in 1979
Traditional	0.18	0.19	0.13	0.29	0.26	0.13
Moderate	0.36	0.42	0.32	0.31	0.33	0.36
Non-traditional	0.47	0.39	0.56	0.49	0.41	0.51

R expected to work at age 35	0.80	0.78	0.86	0.81	0.76	0.74

Life course characteristics
Marital history
Married before age 30	0.42	0.42	0.42	0.48	0.25	0.52
Married at or after age 30	0.26	0.24	0.28	0.29	0.30	0.21
Never married	0.31	0.34	0.30	0.24	0.45	0.27

Experienced marital disruption	0.40	0.41	0.42	0.33	0.31	0.54	^†

Unemployed at two or more survey waves between ages 25 and 35	0.06	0.07	0.10	0.03	0.04	0.08

Not in labor force at two or more survey waves between ages 25 and 35	0.12	0.13	0.18	0.07	0.11	0.09

Ever reported step-children	0.16	0.15	0.18	0.11	0.15	0.25

Ever adopted	0.06	0.05	0.02	0.11	0.06	0.11	^*

Health status
Physical component summary score (standardized)	0.05 (0.04)	0.08 (0.11)	0.12 (0.07)	−0.09 (0.09)	0.14 (0.09)	−0.10 (0.15)

Note:

^†

p < 0.10

p < 0.05

^**

p < 0.01

^***

p < 0.001.

Proportions that share a superscript are significantly different from each other (i.e. p<.05) based on a modified Bonferroni approach for multiple comparisons (Šidák 1967). Respondents with missing values are removed when calculating descriptive statistics.