Journal of Population Sciences
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Young adult characteristics | Mean | Std. | Mean | Std. | Mean | Std. | Mean | Std. |
 Age | 24.64 | 4.56 | 21.97 | 3.72 | 23.75 | 4.24 | 21.22 | 3.18 |
Education | ||||||||
 High | 0.08 | 0.28 | 0.16 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 0.3 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
 Medium | 0.49 | 0.50 | 0.28 | 0.45 | 0.61 | 0.49 | 0.33 | 0.47 |
 Low | 0.42 | 0.49 | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.29 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.50 |
Professional situation | ||||||||
 Student | 0.25 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 0.50 | 0.37 | 0.48 | 0.61 | 0.49 |
 Unemployment OLF | 0.17 | 0.37 | 0.14 | 0.35 | 0.22 | 0.41 | 0.14 | 0.34 |
 Employed | 0.58 | 0.49 | 0.35 | 0.48 | 0.41 | 0.49 | 0.25 | 0.43 |
Household characteristics | ||||||||
 Number of child(ren) <18 | 0.27 | 0.55 | 0.61 | 0.94 | 0.28 | 0.56 | 0.67 | 0.97 |
 Number of young adults | 1.90 | 0.79 | 1.58 | 0.79 | 1.96 | 0.81 | 1.71 | 0.88 |
 Only sisters | 0.62 | 0.49 | 0.61 | 0.49 |  |  |  |  |
 Only brothers |  |  |  |  | 0.58 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.50 |
 Mother’s work = yes | 0.36 | 0.48 | 0.77 | 0.42 | 0.38 | 0.48 | 0.79 | 0.41 |
 Mother’s education |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 High | 0.06 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.35 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.16 | 0.37 |
 Medium | 0.18 | 0.39 | 0.10 | 0.30 | 0.19 | 0.39 | 0.08 | 0.27 |
 Low | 0.76 | 0.43 | 0.76 | 0.43 | 0.75 | 0.43 | 0.76 | 0.43 |
 Number of rooms | 4.90 | 1.61 | 4.94 | 1.17 | 4.94 | 1.68 | 4.96 | 1.16 |
 Garden | 0.51 | 0.5 | 0.76 | 0.43 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.75 | 0.43 |
 Paid domestic help | 0.04 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.25 | 0.03 | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.23 |
 Sunday | 0.31 | 0.46 | 0.15 | 0.36 | 0.32 | 0.47 | 0.13 | 0.34 |
 Saturday | 0.32 | 0.47 | 0.15 | 0.35 | 0.33 | 0.47 | 0.16 | 0.37 |
 Week day | 0.37 | 0.48 | 0.70 | 0.46 | 0.35 | 0.48 | 0.70 | 0.46 |
  N | 2985 |  | 629 |  | 2566 |  | 532 |  |