. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 11.

Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2010 Sep 17;23:615–654. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.22

Table 1:

Relative risk ratios from multinomial logistic regression analyses of parents' relationship status at the child's birth, by race/ethnicity

	Full Sample				White Sample				Black Sample				Hispanic Sample

	Cohabiting vs. Married		Not Coresiding vs. Married		Cohabiting vs. Married		Not Coresiding vs. Married		Cohabiting vs. Married		Not Coresiding vs. Married		Cohabiting vs. Married		Not Coresiding vs. Married
Mom’s Individual
Age at birth	0.91	***	0.88	***	0.90	***	0.85	***	0.92	*	0.88	***	0.93	**	0.92
Race/ethnicity
White (ref)	(1.00)		(1.00)		---		---		---		---		---		---
Black	3.65	***	16.82	***	---		---		---		---		---		---
Hispanic
Native-born	1.65	**	2.31	**	---		---		---		---		---		---
Foreign-born	2.25	***	1.35		---		---		---		---		---		---
Other	1.10		1.43		---		---		---		---		---		---
Nativity (ref: U.S.-born)	---		---		---		---		---		---		1.13		0.42	*
Education
< High school diploma	1.34	*	1.65	**	1.26		1.51		0.91		1.31		1.71	*	1.78
High school diploma or equivalent (ref)	(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)
Some college	0.66	**	0.63		0.64	*	0.89		0.52	*	0.50		0.67		0.30	*
College degree or more	0.44	***^b	0.41	*^c	0.31	**	0.44		0.40		0.17	**	0.95		1.20
Mom’s Family Background Characteristics
Lived with both parents until age 16	0.63	***	0.74	*	0.54	***	0.77		0.83		0.85		0.73		0.67
Parents’ education
< High school diploma	0.81		0.93		0.74		0.99		0.90		0.90		0.96		1.14
High school diploma or equivalent (ref)	(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)
Some college or more	0.83		0.90		0.80		0.95		1.00		0.93		0.93		1.12
Received welfare during childhood	1.32		1.30		1.34		1.37		1.13		1.07		1.64		1.37
Mom’s Fertility & Marriage History
Fertility history
No prior births (ref)	(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)
Any prior birth	0.74	**	0.43	***	0.62	**	0.35	***	0.60		0.43	*	0.90		0.44	*
Ever married to someone else before birth	3.42	***	7.34	***	3.61	***	8.19	***	2.27		5.37	***	3.37	***	8.54	***
Dad’s Individual
Characteristics (mom reports)
Age at birth	0.97	**	0.98		0.97		0.99		0.96		0.95		0.97		0.99
Education
< High school diploma	0.98		1.00		0.98		1.04		1.55		1.87		0.91		0.69
High school diploma or equivalent (ref)	(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)		(1.00)
Some college	0.70	*	0.82		0.61	*	0.55		0.80		1.00		1.13	*	1.50
College degree or more	0.23	***	0.32	**	0.25	***	0.37		0.34		0.35		0.27		0.23	**
Different race/ethnicity from bio mom	1.69	**^a,^b	1.55	^a,^b	2.51	***	3.50	**	0.56		0.38		0.90		0.50
Wald	26.68***				41.37***				4.79***				4.02***
model df	38				30				30				32
N =	10,000				4,600				1,650				1,750

Note: Source. Early Childhood Longitudinal Study -- Birth Cohort baseline data

= Whites significantly different from Blacks at p<0.05

= Whites significantly different from Hispanics at p<0.05

= Blacks significantly different from Hispanics at p<0.05