Does union type make a difference when you separate? Frequency of father–child contact and father’s satisfaction with the relation

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Descriptive statistics

	Marriage			Cohabitation			No union identified
	%	Mean	SD	%	Mean	SD	%	Mean	SD
Father-child relationship N = 1606							N = 500
Contact (times per year)		55.7	85.4		63.4	94.0		74.2	112.5
At least one per week	33.7			37.2			38.7
Less than once a week, more than once a month	34.8			31.7			24.3
Less than once a month	31.5			31.1			37.0
Father’s satisfaction		6.9	3.2		6.8	3.6		6.6	3.4
Children´s characteristics N = 1606
Child’s age
0–6 years	9.0			26.6			26.2
7–12 years	35.1			39.8			30.8
13–18 years	55.9			33.7			43.0
Child’s gender female	47.1			49.1			48.4
Father’s characteristics N = 1218							N = 375
Age		40.8	7.2		38.7	8.9		40.7	9.5
Education¹
Lower than secondary	12.5			27.4			22.6
Secondary	65.4			56.4			55
Higher than secondary	22.1			16.2			22.4
Not employed¹	21.5			25.1			25.6
Current co-residential partner	44.6			33.3			35.7
Number of children		2	1.1		1.9	1.3		2.1	1.2
Time since separation (years)		7.9	4.4		7.4	4.6
Duration of the relationship into which a child was born (years)		11.0	6.0		7.6	5.1

Italics indicate cases in which no union was identified and which are excluded from the further analysis
¹Descriptive statistics are based on non-missing values (i.e. before generating multiple imputations)