The impact of expected child-rearing expenses on childbirth based on the matching of two Korean panel data

Kim, Eunseol; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Lee, Jeong Rim; Choi, Yoon Kyung; Do, Namhee; Lee, Dongha

doi:10.1186/s40723-017-0029-7

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Table 4 Basic statistics by Korea Longitudinal Study of Women and Families (KLoWF)

From: The impact of expected child-rearing expenses on childbirth based on the matching of two Korean panel data

	2007			2008			2010			2012
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)	(1)	(2)	(3)
Original respondent attrition rate (%)				83.67			80.02			76.60
Number of respondents (N)	9997	6115	198	8364	4894	121	8000	4173	116	7658	3646	7
Age (%)
18–29	17.63	23.39	50.00	14.16	20.25	19.83	10.90	16.80	22.41	10.73	17.44	18.3
30–39	31.07	50.79	49.49	30.07	51.39	76.86	25.95	49.75	74.14	20.42	42.90	78.8
40–49	22.73	25.82	0.51	23.54	28.36	3.31	25.11	33.45	3.45	26.33	39.66	2.8
More than 50	28.58			32.23			38.04			42.52
N	9997	6115	198	8364	4894	121	8000	4173	116	7658	3646	7
Education (%)
Less than college	77.80	68.01	66.67	78.66	67.33	57.02	78.70	65.59	62.07	78.45	63.88	63.3
College graduate	22.20	31.99	33.33	21.34	32.67	42.98	21.30	34.41	37.93	21.55	36.12	36.6
N	9993	6112	198	8361	4892	121	7999	4173	116	7657	3646	7
Currently married (%)
Not married	12.26	17.76	0.00	10.25	16.92	0.83	20.30	21.64	0.00	22.12	23.92	0.0
Married	87.74	82.24	100.00	89.75	83.08	99.17	79.70	78.36	100.00	77.88	76.08	100.0
N	9997	6115	198	8364	4894	121	8000	4173	116	7658	3646	7
Work status (%)
Working	42.86	38.68	21.72	47.33	42.75	18.18	52.04	48.66	31.03	54.64	52.30	22.5
Not working (%)	57.14	61.32	78.28	52.67	57.25	81.82	47.96	51.34	68.97	45.36	47.70	77.4
N	9997	6115	198	8363	4894	121	7998	4172	116	7658	3646	7
Husband’s age (%)
18–29	2.46	4.00	21.72	1.48	2.51	6.72	0.64	1.22	7.83	0.40	0.85	7.1
30–39	23.71	38.58	72.73	21.93	37.29	81.51	16.76	31.99	80.00	12.10	25.44	80.0
40–49	22.66	33.11	4.55	23.78	36.84	10.92	24.14	41.82	12.17	23.61	45.09	12.8
More than 50	51.17	24.31	1.01	52.81	23.35	0.84	58.45	24.97	0.00	63.89	28.63	0.0
N	9769	6001	198	8184	4813	119	7803	4089	115	7449	3542	7
Husband’s education (%)
Less than college	53.56	44.69	51.01	55.21	45.05	39.50	54.90	43.59	46.09	54.01	42.50	50.0
College graduate	46.44	55.31	48.99	44.79	54.95	60.50	45.10	56.41	53.91	45.99	57.50	50.0
N	9969	6095	198	8344	4881	119	7976	4159	115	7637	3635	7
Husband’s work status (%)
Working	87.33	93.83	95.41	83.76	90.15	95.76	87.76	95.11	94.78	79.72	97.82	84.2
Not working	12.67	6.17	4.59	16.24	9.85	4.24	12.24	4.89	5.22	20.28	2.18	15.7
N	7884	4796	196	6742	3897	118	6388	3272	115	5976	2475	7

(1): total sample, (2): fertility cohort (female age 19–39) and (3): fertility subsample (Those among fertility cohort who had pregnancy between current Md next survey. For example, (3) for 2007: 2007; (3) for 2008: 2008 and 2009). Fertility subsample of the fourth survey includes those who are pregnant at the time of the survey. Omitted entries are either omitted by definition or because there are too few observations to be meaningful

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