Table 2.

Relationship between respondent characteristics and cluster membership (odds ratios)

	Consistent Childless	Early Switchers	Late Switchers	High to None	Gradual
Demographic characteristics
Race/ethnicity (ref: White)
Black	0.25***	1.33	1.27	2.19*	1.60
Hispanic	0.63	1.40	1.04	0.74	1.80
Highest grade completed at age 30 (ref: High school)
Less than high school	1.44	1.22	1.41	0.08*	0.55
Some college	1.37	0.65	1.12	1.53	0.98
BA/BS	0.64	0.56†	1.19	4.30**	1.13
Graduate	0.61	0.61	0.88	6.09***	1.22
Foreign-born	0.37	0.79	1.89	1.04	1.23
R raised in a rural area	1.24	1.77*	0.34**	0.58	1.21
Religion R raised with (ref: Protestant)
Fundamentalist Christian	2.20*	0.47**	1.00	0.45*	2.08
Catholic	0.85	0.62	1.10	2.78**	0.86
Other	1.24	0.44*	1.56	1.72	1.16
Childhood family context
Family structure at age 14 (ref: Lived with both parents)
Lived with mother only	1.51	0.65	0.72	1.24	1.41
Other family type	1.07	0.73	1.22	0.86	1.40
Number of siblings	0.96	1.02	0.96	1.12	0.95
Sex role orientation
Mother worked when R was 14	0.78	0.94	1.06	1.12	1.23
Gender attitudes in 1979 (ref: Non-traditional)
Traditional	0.46*	1.16	1.24	2.45*	0.48
Moderate	0.69	1.36	0.73	1.28	0.99
R expected to work at age 35	1.69	0.95	1.13	0.67	0.54
Life course characteristics
Marital history (ref: Married before age 30)
Married at or after age 30	1.30	1.09	0.64	1.45	0.94
Never married	1.25	1.28	0.27***	2.85*	1.58
Experienced marital disruption	1.16	1.31	0.36**	1.18	2.43*
Unemployed at two or more survey waves between ages 25 and 35	1.53	1.08	0.41	0.52	1.69
Not in labor force at two or more survey waves between ages 25 and 35	2.05*	1.12	0.37*	0.82	0.86
Ever reported step-children	1.21	0.84	0.54	1.35	1.90†
Ever adopted	0.23*	0.77	2.31†	1.13	1.75
Health status
Physical component summary score (standardized)	0.87	1.20	1.05	0.94	0.83

Note:

^†p < 0.10

^*p < 0.05

^**p < 0.01

^***p < 0.001.