Intergenerational transmission of parental child-rearing gender-role attitudes and its influence on gender roles in single-parent families

Table 1 Sample characteristics (N = 550)

Variable	n	%
Parent gender
Male	211	38.4
Female	339	61.6
Parents’ educational degrees
Elementary school and below	48	8.7
Junior middle school	245	44.5
High school and technical secondary school	167	30.4
College degree or above	90	16.4
Family income per month
Less than $687	224	40.7
$687 to $1373	220	40.0
$1374 to $2061	69	12.6
Over $2061	37	6.7
Number of children
Only one child	331	60.2
Two or more children of the same sex	78	14.2
Two or more children of different sex	141	25.6
Child gender
Male	233	42.4
Female	317	57.6

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