Families and Personal Networks An International Comparative Perspective

Table 7.4

Impact of gender, birth cohort, country of residence, and co-residence trajectories on personal networks. Separated logistic

regressions (Exp(b))

Beanpole

Extended conjugal

Friendship

Mixed

Standard nuclear

Narrow nuclear

Parents

Siblings

Work

Intercept

0.065***

0.141***

0.173***

0.032***

0.156***

0.334***

0.057***

0.059***

0.057***

Gender (ref.: men)Women

1.372

0.993

0.893

0.903

1.113

0.703***

1.292*

1.179

1.097

Birth cohort (ref.: 1950–1955)1970–1975

0.019**

1.390*

0.662*

2.300***

0.644**

0.902

4.466***

1.101

0.779

Country (ref.: Portugal)Switzerland

0.544

0.512***

1.768***

0.791

1.049

0.790

0.682*

1.459

1.347

Lithuania

3.453***

0.720

0.122***

0.484**

1.488

2.383***

0.851

1.334

0.737

Education level (ref.: (upper) secondary education)Primary education

3.249***

1.011

0.625*

0.673

1.734*

1.213

0.521*

1.248

0.356*

Lower secondary education

2.329**

1.168

0.838

0.991

1.151

1.117

0.704

1.149

0.807

Post-secondary non-tertiary education

0.675

1.071

0.602*

1.841

0.919

1.000

1.078

0.788

1.591

First stage of tertiary education

1.026

0.850

0.892

0.948

1.075

0.800

1.092

0.822

1.815**

Second stage of tertiary education

0.772

0.810

1.153

1.150

0.918

0.693*

0.964

0.745

2.753***

Co-residence trajectories (ref.: Parenthood)Transition to parenthood

....

1.421

1.168

0.979

0.578*

0.720

1.298

1.089

1.630*

Transition to empty nest

1.465*

0.567*

0.962

0.743

0.919

0.928

1.442

0.754

0.972 (continued

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