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Table 3. The bivariate associations between the explanatory variables and pregnancy avoidance (%)
Pregnancy avoidance Consistently strong Never strong Became weaker Became strong Total N
TOTAL 68 16 9 7 100 3,011
UNION STATUS p < 0.001
No change 66 17 9 7 100 2,477
Stronger union 73 9 12 6 100 279
Union dissolution 73 10 7 9 100 255
EMPLOYMENT p < 0.001
Full time 65 19 10 6 100 1,006
Part time 76 11 7 6 100 387
Not working 64 18 11 8 100 780
Less work 68 15 10 7 100 349
More work 72 12 8 8 100 478
AGE AT BASELINE p < 0.001
18–24 79 8 7 5 100 801
25–29 65 17 11 7 100 1,023
30–34 59 20 12 9 100 635
35–39 65 21 7 7 100 552
EDUCATION AT BASELINE p < 0.001
Less than high school 59 22 13 5 100 143
High school 58 19 12 11 100 405
Some college 69 15 8 8 100 1,097
College degree 70 15 10 5 100 1,366
PARITY (Wave II) p < 0.001
0 71 15 8 6 100 1,593
1 58 20 11 11 100 582
2 69 15 11 5 100 529
3 or more 67 16 11 7 100 303
YOUNGEST CHILD IN HH p < 0.001
No children in hh 70 16 8 6 100 1,542
Infant (0–12 months) 60 15 16 9 100 428
Toddler (1–3 yrs) 65 20 10 6 100 570
Kid (4–12 yrs) 68 15 7 10 100 353
Teen (13–19 yrs) 79 11 5 5 100 118
RACE/ETHNICITY p = 0.759
White 67 17 9 7 100 1,958
Black 65 16 12 7 100 270
Other, Non-Hispanic 72 14 8 6 100 249
Hispanic 67 15 9 8 100 534

change than adolescents. Women with high school diploma or less more often shifted to a
weaker avoidance than other women (12–13 percent vs 8–10 percent). Parous women
shifted more often to weaker avoidance than childless women (8 percent vs 11 percent),
and mothers of infants were more likely to transition into either direction than women with
older children. Race/ethnicity was not significantly associated with this outcome.
Findings using the multivariate analyses were similar to the bivariate analyses although

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