Becoming obese in young adulthood: the role of career-family pathways in the transition to adulthood for men and women

Table 3 Obesity, gender, pregnancy and career-family sequence cluster membership (%)

	UE-P	UE-UC-CH	CO-E-M	UE-S-CH	UE-M-CH	CO-E-UC	CO-E-S	UE-S
Obesity at 17
No	79.44	82.67	92.57	81.94	86.94	90.02	91.01	83.51
Yes	20.56	17.33	7.43	18.06	13.06	9.98	8.99	16.49
Obesity at 28
No	61.97	63.07	68.82	61.78	64.61	75.18	78.75	67.35
Yes	38.03	36.93	31.18	38.22	35.39	24.82	21.25	32.65
Gender
Men	62.56	45.74	40.53	31.68	36.10	38.69	53.95	68.04
Women	37.44	54.26	59.47	68.32	63.90	61.31	46.05	31.96
Pregnant at 28
No	95.33	91.19	81.53	86.78	86.38	88.56	94.41	95.53
Yes	4.67	8.81	18.47	13.22	13.62	11.44	5.59	4.47

The career-family clusters are coded using a the following scheme: CO college education, E (stable) employed, UE unemployed or unstable employment, M married, UC unmarried cohabitation, S single, P = living in the parental home, CH = having (had) a child(ren)

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