Table 1.
Sample characteristics across the three countries, N = 894.
| Variable | Hungary (N = 317) |
Romania (N = 341) |
Slovakia (N = 236) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (mean) | 36.7 | 34.2 | 35.6 |
| Average family size (mean) | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| Number of children (mean) | 2 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Marital status: single (%) | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| Urban, >100,000 inhabitants (%) | 24.8 | 20.1 | 18.6 |
| Urban, 20,000–100,000 inhabitants (%) | 23.2 | 22.1 | 19.1 |
| Urban <20,000 inhabitants (%) | 11.9 | 15.5 | 17.9 |
| Rural (%) | 40.1 | 42.3 | 44.4 |
| Subjective SES (0–10, mean) | 7.36 | 6.98 | 7.16 |
| Low educational attainment (%) | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Middle educational attainment (%) | 25.3 | 26.9 | 26.4 |
| High educational attainment (%) | 73.5 | 71,2 | 72 |
| Employee (%) | 55.9 | 59.1 | 56.2 |
| On maternity leave (%) | 36.7 | 32.9 | 36.1 |
| In education (%) | 1.7 | 1.4 | 2.0 |
| Unemployed (%) | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Housewife, full-time mother (%) | 5.0 | 5.4 | 4.7 |
| Has a child with chronic illness (%) | 14.2 | 13.8 | 14.0 |