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Table 3
Impact of teenage childbearing on labour force attachment of mothers aged 30 to 39

  Full-year full-time employment Some employment Did not work
Baseline probability (%)
41 34 24
Marginal effects % points
Timing of motherhood and education
Teenage, less than high school -9* 1 8*
Teenage, high school diploma -1 -1 1
Teenage, postsecondary completed 13* 2 -15*
Adult, less than high school -10* -3* 13*
Adult, high school diploma ref ref ref
Adult, postsecondary completed 5* 5* -10*
Father's education
Less than high school ref ref ref
High school diploma -1 1 0
Postsecondary completed -6* 3 3
Mother's education
Less than high school ref ref ref
High school diploma 5* -3* -1
Postsecondary completed 5* -1 -4*
Personal background
Immigrant -7* -1 7*
Non-immigrant ref ref ref
Visible minority 1 -9* 8*
Non-visible minority ref ref ref
Aboriginal background 0 -6* 5
No aboriginal background ref ref ref
Disability reported -15* -2 17*
No disability reported ref ref ref
Children born (mean = 2, ref) -9* 3* 6*
Living with preschool-age children -5* -1 6*
No preschool-age children ref ref ref
Gave birth during year 5 -6* 1
Did not give birth during year ref ref ref
Age (mean = 35, ref) 1* 0 -1*
Marital status
Married ref ref ref
Common-law 2 -1 -2
Separated 2 -3 1
Divorced 5 -9* 4
Widowed -8 -12 20
Never married -12* -1 13*
* statistically significant from the reference category (ref) at the 0.05 level or better
Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005.