Table 4.

Ordered Logistic Regression and Odds Ratios Of Expecting To Cohabit With Their Future Husband (N =1,415)

	Zero-Order Models			Full Model
	B	SE B	OR	B	SE B	OR
Mother’s education attainment
(Less than high school)
High school or GED	0.23	0.14	1.26	0.27	0.15	1.31
Some college	0.12	0.14	1.12	0.26	0.17	1.29
Bachelor’s degree +	0.11	0.17	1.11	0.27	0.20	1.31
Prior marriage (never married)	0.21	0.31	1.24	−0.08	0.38	0.92
Prior cohabitation (never cohabited)	0.75	0.17	2.13 ***	0.72	0.20	2.05***
Biological child (no children)	0.29	0.13	1.34 *	0.11	0.18	1.11
Age at interview	0.04	0.03	1.04	−0.01	0.04	0.99
Race/Ethnicity
(Non-Hispanic white)
Non-Hispanic black	−0.31	0.17	0.73	0.00	0.19	1.00
Hispanic	−0.21	0.17	0.81	0.03	0.18	1.03
Non-Hispanic other	−0.14	0.20	0.87	−0.14	0.23	0.87
Urban residence (not urban)	0.15	0.17	1.17	0.03	0.16	1.03
Two Biological Parents (not two biological parents)	−0.32	0.13	0.73 *	−0.11	0.14	0.90
Importance of religion
Not important	1.66	0.18	5.24***	1.66	0.20	5 25***
Somewhat important (Very important)	1.03	0.17	2 81 ***	1.05	0.18	2 85 ***
-2 Log likelihooda				4,669.12

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.