Table 2.

Multilevel Negative Binomial Regression Models Predicting Number of Friends in Network

	Total	No children	No partner	Has child	Has partner
	(N = 53,247)	(n = 4,768)	(n = 15,060)	(n = 48,260)	(n = 37,304)
Intercept	−0.329 (0.062)***	−0.234 (0.049)***	−0.282 (0.054)***	−1.402 (0.055)***	−1.188 (0.068)***
Family network structure
Has child	−0.534 (0.022)***		−0.508 (0.026)***
Has partner	−0.557 (0.016)***	−0.547 (0.038)***		−0.633 (0.016)***	−0.571 (0.037)***
Child not in network				1.220 (0.016)***
Partner not in network					1.304 (0.023)***
National context
% Friends “Very” important	0.021 (0.005)***	0.013 (0.004)***	0.019 (0.004)***	0.018 (0.005)***	0.024 (0.005)***
Covariates
Social connectedness	0.857 (0.009)***	0.801 (0.022)***	0.694 (0.014)***	1.096 (0.009)***	1.066 (0.012)***
Age	−0.012 (0.001)***	−0.005 (0.002)*	−0.017 (0.001)***	−0.004 (0.001)***	−0.013 (0.001)***
Female	0.147 (0.015)***	0.116 (0.036)***	0.175 (0.025)***	0.232 (0.016)***	−0.023 (0.020)
Employed	−0.119 (0.020)***	−0.176 (0.047)***	−0.166 (0.031)***	−0.135 (0.021)***	−0.065 (0.026)*
Education	0.128 (0.005)***	0.097 (0.013)***	0.135 (0.008)***	0.112 (0.005)***	0.135 (0.007)***
Household income	0.000 (0.002)	−0.002 (0.003)	−0.021 (0.004)***	−0.003 (0.002)	0.004 (0.002)***
Depressive symptoms	0.036 (0.004)***	0.006 (0.009)	0.023 (0.005)***	0.030 (0.004)***	0.025 (0.005)***
IADL difficulty (1+)	−0.152 (0.022)***	−0.041 (0.052)	−0.165 (0.031)***	−0.166 (0.023)***	−0.098 (0.031)***
Self-rated health	0.038 (0.008)***	0.042 (0.020)*	0.043 (0.012)***	0.030 (0.009)***	0.040 (0.011)***
Random effects
L1: Dispersion parameter	0.286 (0.014)	0.026 (0.022)	0.105 (0.017)	0.144 (0.012)	0.286 (0.019)
L2: Intercept	0.054 (0.021)	0.018 (0.010)	0.034 (0.014)	0.043 (0.017)	0.052 (0.021)
Model fit statistics
−2 res log pseudo-likelihood	220244	16286.0	54233.0	196445.5	161622.9
Generalized chi-square	53533.02	4206.9	14936.3	41243.5	31674.1

Note: Unstandardized coefficients with standard errors in parentheses.

*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001.