Table 1.
Comparison of the Sociodemographic Characteristics of Parents Living With Children and Nonparents and Parents Not Living With Children in Samples A and B
| Characteristic | Sample A | Sample B | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parents living with children | Test of the difference | Parents living with children | Test of the difference | |||||
| Yes | Noa | Statistic | p | Yes | Noa | Statistic | p | |
| Age (years) |
M = 39.8 (SD = 8.4) |
M = 35.9 (SD = 12.3) |
t(592) = 4.73 | < .001 |
M = 42.5 (SD = 10.0) |
M = 43.7 (SD = 15.2) |
t(527) = 1.16 | .246 |
| Gender (%) | χ2(1, N = 650) = 21.66 | χ2(1, N = 543) = 0.44 | .506 | |||||
| Men | 32.3 | 50.5 | < .001 | 47.9 | 50.9 | |||
| Women | 66.8 | 46.1 | 52.1 | 48.7 | ||||
| Racial and ethnic identity (%) | χ2(3, N = 655) = 7.27 | .064 | χ2(3, N = 543) = 8.23 | .041 | ||||
| African or African American | 35.9 | 27.1 | 4.6 | 6.9 | ||||
| East Asian or East Asian American | 17.7 | 24.3 | 1.7 | 4.9 | ||||
| White/European/ European American | 32.7 | 35.3 | 84.0 | 82.4 | ||||
| Other racial or ethnic identity | 12.7 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 5.6 | ||||
| Political affiliation (%) | χ2(2, N = 655) = 5.49 | .064 | χ2(1, N = 543) = 9.19 | .002 | ||||
| Republican | 20.0 | 13.1 | 58.4 | 44.8 | ||||
| Democrat | 49.5 | 50.5 | 41.6 | 54.9 | ||||
| Independent/other | 29.5 | 34.2 | — | — | ||||
a
This group included both parents not living with their children and people who did not have children.