Table 1 Late parental divorce and early parental divorce (horizontal percentages) across other independent variables at the first survey (vertical percentages)
Girls | Boys | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent variables | Frequency (Vertical percentage) | Late divorce | Early divorce | Frequency (Vertical percentage) | Late divorce | Early divorce |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Western | 1169 (87.2) | 54 (4.6) | 275 (23.5)** | 963 (89.9) | 39 (4.0) | 221 (22.9)** |
Non western | 172 (12.8) | 10 (5.8) | 24 (14.0) | 108 (10.1) | 6 (5.6) | 7 (6.5) |
Family economy | ||||||
Average and below | 390 (29.6) | 20 (5.1) | 131 (33.6)** | 265 (24.8) | 19 (7.2)* | 95 (35.8)** |
Above average | 927 (70.4) | 42 (4.5) | 165 (17.8) | 803 (75.2) | 26 (3.2) | 136 (16.9) |
Social support | ||||||
Low | 118 (8.8) | 5 (4.2) | 30 (25.4) | 95 (8.9) | 3 (3.2) | 23 (24.2) |
High | 1219 (91.2) | 59 (4.8) | 269 (22.1) | 978 (91.1) | 42 (4.3) | 208 (21.3) |