Table 3.

Ordered Logistic Regressions and Odds Ratios of Marital and Cohabitation Expectations (N = 1,481)

	Marital Expectations						Cohabitation Expectations
	Zero-Order Models			Full Model			Zero-Order Models			Full Model
	B	SE B	OR	B	SE B	OR	B	SE B	OR	B	SE B	OR
Mother’s education attainment
(Less than high school)
High school or GED	0.41	0.20	1.50 *	0.21	0.21	1.23	0.04	0.43	1.04	0.07	0.18	1.07
Some college	0.49	0.22	1.64 *	0.21	0.22	1.23	−0.08	0.15	0.92	0.09	0.17	1.10
Bachelor’s degree +	0.50	0.22	1.65 *	0.16	0.23	1.18	0.00	0.17	1.00	0.15	0.20	1.16
Prior marriage (never married)	−1.47	0.33	0.23 ***	−1.33	0.37	0.26 ***	0.04	0.43	1.04	−0.26	0.41	0.77
Prior cohabitation (never cohabited)	−0.38	0.17	0.69 *	0.08	0.20	1.09	0.47	0.18	1.61 *	0.34	0.21	1.40
Biological child (no children)	−0.04	0.03	0.96 ***	−0.62	0.21	0.54 **	0.27	0.16	1.31	0.20	0.21	1.22
Age at interview	−0.04	0.03	0.96	0.01	0.04	1.01	0.06	0.03	1.07 *	0.05	0.03	1.05
Race/Ethnicity
(Non-Hispanic white)
Non-Hispanic black	−0.14	0.17	0.87	−0.10	0.20	0.91	−0.65	0.16	0.52 ***	−0.43	0.18	0.65 *
Hispanic	−0.49	0.18	0.62 **	−0.40	0.18	0.67 *	−0.08	0.18	0.93	0.08	0.19	1.08
Non-Hispanic other	−0.90	0.33	0.41 **	−0.86	0.37	0.42 *	−0.15	0.18	0.86	−0.25	0.18	0.78
Urban residence (not urban)	−0.35	0.14	0.71 *	−0.22	0.14	0.80	0.23	0.18	1.25	0.15	0.17	1.17
Two Biological Parents (not two biological parents)	0.52	0.14	1.68 ***	0.45	0.15	1.57 **	−0.27	0.12	0.76 *	−0.19	0.13	0.83
Importance of religion
Not important	−0.90	0.15	0.41 ***	−0.90	0.15	0.40 ***	1.71	0.17	5.51 ***	1.63	0.18	5.10 ***
Somewhat important (Very important)	−0.53	0.18	0.59 **	−0.56	0.18	0.57 **	1.11	0.17	3.04 ***	1.05	0.18	2.87 ***
-2 Log likelihooda				3,378.92						4906.54

Source: National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) 2011 – 2015.

Note: All values are weighted. Single women aged 18 to 24. OR = Odds Ratio. Reference category in parentheses.

^aBased on unweighted analyses.

^*< .05.

^**< .01.

^***< .001.