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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2018 Feb;55(1):107–133. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0647-x

Table 1.

Means of all variables, with standard deviations in parentheses

Variable All Mothers Married
(72 %)
Never Married
(13 %)
Cohabiters
(5%)
Divorced
(10 %)

Childcare 119.02 (0.94) 124.85 (1.17) 105.94 (3.04) 121.92 (5.37) 92.43 (2.65)
Housework 163.56 (1.15) 175.64 (1.37) 116.23 (3.18) 156.54 (5.53) 141.30 (3.61)
Leisure (all) 210.85 (1.26) 203.55 (1.44) 241.46 (4.20) 252.36 (10.93) 203.81 (4.27)
Social Leisure 50.92 (0.63) 51.86 (0.70) 47.48 (2.24) 55.47 (4.33) 46.34 (1.93)
Active Leisure 27.66 (0.52) 30.23 (0.61) 18.91 (1.16) 24.17 (2.51) 22.17 (1.59)
Sedentary Leisure 132.32 (1.14) 121.52 (1.22) 175.08 (3.92) 172.72 (10.38) 135.32 (3.68)
Television (all) 109.95 (1.01) 102.60 (1.15) 140.77 (3.56) 140.02 (9.37) 108.52 (3.50)
Television (alone) 25.14 (0.55) 19.13 (0.50) 48.90 (2.80) 20.24 (2.58) 39.94 (1.91)
Sleep 515.70 (1.04) 508.17 (1.09) 550.14 (3.81) 527.49 (6.76) 519.54 (2.94)
Presence of Extended 0.19 0.14 0.40 0.15 0.29
 Family
Number of Children 2.11 2.18 1.77 1.85 2.12
Presence of Child 0.26 0.26 0.31 0.40 0.13
 Under 2
Presence of Child 0.44 0.45 0.47 0.46 0.36
 2–5 Years Old
Less Than High School 0.13 0.11 0.21 0.21 0.14
High School 0.28 0.25 0.40 0.38 0.33
Some College 0.28 0.26 0.31 0.31 0.34
BA or More 0.31 0.38 0.08 0.09 0.20
Not Employed 0.37 0.37 0.41 0.40 0.28
Part-Time 0.19 0.20 0.16 0.18 0.17
Full-Time 0.44 0.43 0.43 0.42 0.55
Black 0.13 0.07 0.44 0.12 0.19
Hispanic 0.23 0.22 0.23 0.25 0.24
White 0.64 0.71 0.34 0.63 0.56
Age 34.39 35.58 28.64 29.53 35.59
Weekend Diary Day 0.29 0.29 0.29 0.28 0.30
N 23,088 16,086 2,928 823 3,251

Notes: Data are from ATUS 2003–2012. The analytic sample is mothers aged 18–254 with coresidential children under age 13. We use person-level and replicate weights.