Table 2.

Means and Proportions for Variables in the Analyses by Self-Perceiving Fertility Problems and/or Meeting Medical Criteria for Infertility

	Neither self nor medical		Self-perceives a fertility problem		Meets medical criteria for infertility		Self-perceives and meets medical criteria		Total
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Continuous variables
Depressive symptoms (0–30)	6.28	4.54	7.32	5.05	7.53a	0.27	8.07a	5.8	7.06	5.07
Age (25–45)	34.46a	6.08	35.61b	5.9	34.96ab	6.12	35.54	5.6	35.29	5.98
Education (years: 0–22)	15.11a	2.84	13.88	2.8	15.32a	3.14	14.45	2.73	14.62	2.8
Economic hardship (3–12)	4.43	1.61	5.03a	1.86	4.75a	1.8	4.98a	1.98	4.74	1.81
Religiosity (−2.37 to 1.08)	−0.07a	0.72	0.12	0.6	−0.12a	0.74	0.03	0.68	0	0.07
Social support (4–16)	14.67a	2.02	14.22b	2.47a	14.6	2.06	14.18b	2.54	14.43	2.29
Categoricl variables
Met clinical threshhold for CESD-10	0.21		0.30a		0.32a		0.33a		0.27
Never married	0.24a		0.21a		0.33		0.13		0.21
Parity 1+	0.69		0.9		0.48		0.73		0.74
Private insurance	0.79a		0.66		0.81a		0.72		0.74
Employed full-time	0.60a		0.55b		0.63ac		0.55bc		0.58
Black	0.16a		0.28		0.15a		0.20		0.20
Hispanic	0.17a		0.22		0.16a		0.16a		0.18
Asian	0.03a		0.02a		0.02a		0.03a		0.02
White	0.62ab		0.45a		0.65b		0.59		0.57
n	1,996		1,253		354		1,108

Data source: National Survey of Fertility Barriers, cases with complete data, n = 4,711.

For continuous data, means that do not share a subscript are significantly different from each other by using the Bonferroni post hoc test. Proportions that do not share a subscript are significantly different from each other by using chi-square.

CES-D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies—Depression scale; SD, standard deviation.