Table 1.
Characteristics of children and parents in different living arrangements
| Sociodemographic variables | Total sample (n=12 845) |
Children’s living arrangements | ||||||||
| Intact family (n=12 203) |
Joint physical custody (n=332) |
Mostly with one parent (n=151) |
Only with one parent (n=159) |
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| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Child gender | ||||||||||
| Girl | 6220 | 48.1 | 5903 | 48.0 | 163 | 48.5 | 75 | 49.7 | 79 | 49.1 |
| Boy | 6641 | 51.3 | 6313 | 51.4 | 171 | 50.9 | 76 | 50.3 | 81 | 50.3 |
| Not reported | 76 | 0.6 | 73 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.6 |
| Responding parent | ||||||||||
| Female (mother) | 5342 | 41.3 | 4873 | 39.7 | 201 | 59.8 | 126 | 83.4 | 142 | 88.2 |
| Male (father) | 1058 | 8.2 | 968 | 7.9 | 73 | 21.7 | 12 | 7.9 | 5 | 3.1 |
| Two parents together* | 6519 | 50.4 | 6433 | 52.3 | 60 | 17.9 | 13 | 8.6 | 13 | 8.1 |
| Not reported | 18 | 0.1 | 15 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.6 |
| Mother age (mean, SD)† | 35.39 | 4.66 | 35.47 | 4.58 | 34.18 | 5.06 | 33.99 | 6.26 | 32.84 | 6.49 |
| Father age (mean, SD)‡ | 37.60 | 5.48 | 37.64 | 5.46 | 36.05 | 5.56 | 37.85 | 4.42 | 33.56 | 9.00 |
| Mother highest level of education | ||||||||||
| Compulsory | 203 | 1.6 | 168 | 1.4 | 15 | 4.5 | 7 | 4.6 | 13 | 8.2 |
| High school | 2751 | 21.4 | 2528 | 20.7 | 85 | 25.6 | 65 | 43.0 | 73 | 45.9 |
| University less than 3 years | 1307 | 10.2 | 1238 | 10.1 | 35 | 10.5 | 16 | 10.6 | 18 | 11.3 |
| University more than 3 years | 7284 | 56.7 | 7075 | 58.0 | 115 | 34.6 | 49 | 32.5 | 45 | 28.3 |
| Not reported | 1300 | 10.1 | 1194 | 9.8 | 82 | 24.7 | 14 | 9.3 | 10 | 6.3 |
| Father highest level of education | ||||||||||
| Compulsory | 172 | 1.3 | 161 | 1.3 | 4 | 1.2 | 3 | 2.0 | 4 | 2.5 |
| High school | 2046 | 15.9 | 1984 | 16.3 | 52 | 15.7 | 5 | 3.3 | 5 | 3.1 |
| University less than 3 years | 902 | 7.0 | 879 | 7.2 | 17 | 5.1 | 6 | 4.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| University more than 3 years | 4166 | 32.4 | 4098 | 33.6 | 55 | 16.6 | 8 | 5.3 | 5 | 3.1 |
| Not reported | 5559 | 43.3 | 5081 | 41.6 | 204 | 61.4 | 129 | 85.4 | 145 | 91.2 |
| Mother country of birth | ||||||||||
| Sweden | 7051 | 54.9 | 6716 | 55.0 | 171 | 51.5 | 81 | 53.6 | 83 | 52.2 |
| Other | 1440 | 11.2 | 1383 | 11.3 | 18 | 5.4 | 13 | 8.6 | 26 | 16.4 |
| Not reported | 4354 | 33.9 | 4104 | 33.6 | 143 | 43.1 | 57 | 37.7 | 50 | 31.4 |
| Father country of birth | ||||||||||
| Sweden | 4484 | 34.9 | 4374 | 35.8 | 89 | 26.8 | 14 | 9.3 | 7 | 4.4 |
| Other | 872 | 6.8 | 853 | 7.0 | 9 | 2.7 | 2 | 1.3 | 8 | 5.0 |
| Not reported | 7489 | 58.3 | 6976 | 57.2 | 234 | 70.5 | 135 | 89.4 | 144 | 90.6 |
| Coparenting quality | ||||||||||
| High | 11 314 | 88.1 | 10 972 | 89.9 | 218 | 65.7 | 70 | 46.4 | 54 | 34.0 |
| Low | 1531 | 11.9 | 1231 | 10.1 | 114 | 34.3 | 81 | 53.6 | 105 | 66.0 |
*Includes some same sex parents,
†n=9028.
‡n=5697.