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Table 10 Association between family work patterns and stress

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	Without child interactions	Overall	Demographic controls	Demographic, job controls
	Without child interactions	With child interactions
	coefficient
Constant	0.126^**	0.073	0.114^**	0.069
Work pattern¹
One low, at least one standard	0.046^*	0.068^*	0.067	0.082^*
Long family hours	0.108^**	0.152^**	0.156^**	0.129^*
Work patterns with children
Standard hours	...	0.108^**	0.107^**	0.102^**
One low, one at least standard	...	-0.064	-0.063	-0.069
Long family hours	...	-0.095	-0.100	-0.082
Demographic controls²	No	No	Yes	Yes
Job controls³	No	No	No	Yes
Panel controls	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
1. Reference category is families with two consistently standard parents. 2. Region of residence, age, immigration status, and education level. 3. Industry, management and self-employment dummies, job quality indicators (pension, union, firm size), and wage quartile dummies, based on the job with the most hours over the 5-year period. * statistically significant at the 10% level. statistically significant at the 5% level or better. Note: Only families in which both parents are participating to the labour market. Stress is defined as both parents experiencing at least one period of stress. ‘Standard' includes high-low individuals. Source:** Statistics Canada, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, longitudinal panels 1996 to 2001, 1999 to 2004, and 2002 to 2007.