Table 1.

Characteristics of the sample at baseline: Women in the ELSPAC-CZ cohort.

	Gender discrimination						All
	Yes (n = 508)			No (n = 4180)			(n = 4688)
Variable (Range)	Mean SE	95% CI		Mean SE	95% CI		Mean SE	95% CI
Depressive symptoms (0–30)	8.41	7.97	8.86	6.30	6.17	6.44	6.53	6.40	6.66
	0.23			0.07			0.07
Depressive symptoms, logged (0–3.43)	2.07	2.00	2.13	1.77	1.75	1.79	1.80	1.78	1.82
	0.03			0.01			0.01
Perceived gender discrimination %							10.7	9.8	11.6
Socio-Demographic Characteristics
Age, years	26.09	25.63	26.55	25.10	24.95	25.24	25.20	25.06	25.34
	0.23			0.07			0.07
Education, years (8–18)	12.42	12.17	12.66	11.81	11.73	11.88	11.87	11.80	11.94
	0.12			0.04			0.04
Financial hardship (0–3)a	0.62	0.53	0.71	0.51	0.48	0.53	0.52	0.50	0.54
	0.04			0.01			0.01
Marital status %
Married	83.5	77.7	89.2	87.1	85.6	88.7	86.7	85.2	88.3
Single	8.6	6.0	11.2	9.6	8.7	10.5	9.5	8.7	10.4
Widowed	1.2	0.3	2.2	0.1	0.01	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.4
Divorced/Separated	6.7	4.5	8.9	3.1	2.6	3.7	3.5	3.0	4.0
Social support (0–5)	3.05	2.96	3.15	3.16	3.13	3.19	3.15	3.12	3.18
	0.05			0.02			0.01
Partner's Participation in Household Tasks
Female-stereotypical tasks (1–5)b	1.88	1.81	1.94	1.96	1.92	1.99	1.95	1.92	1.98
	0.03			0.02			0.01
Male-stereotypical tasks (1–5)b	3.72	3.57	3.86	4.02	3.98	4.05	3.98	3.95	4.02
	0.07			0.02			0.02
Maltreatment during Childhood
Sexual abuse (0–9)	0.84	0.72	0.98	0.46	0.42	0.50	0.50	0.47	0.54
	0.07			0.02			0.02
Emotional/physical neglect %	41.4	36.2	46.7	26.7	25.0	28.4	28.2	26.6	29.9
Characteristics of Pregnancy and Delivery
First child %	36.1	31.8	40.4	40.3	38.8	41.8	39.9	38.5	41.3
Low birth weight %	4.2	2.4	5.9	5.0	4.3	5.6	4.9	4.2	5.5
Boy child %	53.3	48.9	57.8	52.7	51.1	54.2	52.7	51.3	54.2
Singleton delivery %	98.5	97.3	99.6	97.9	97.5	98.4	98.0	97.5	98.4

Data source: ELSPAC-CZ. CI=confidence interval. SE=standard error.

^aMeasured roughy 41 months since baseline.

^bMeasured roughly 11 months since baseline.