Table 2

Proportion of mothers in paid work at each age of data collection by potential correlates of maternal employment

	Infancy		Age 3 y		Age 5 y
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Overall % in paid work	12951	55.0	12168	58.2	12935	60.9
Maternal educational qualifications	12547	p<0.001	11418	p<0.001	11959	p<0.001
NVQ 5	432	76.9	834	75.2	914	81.6
NVQ4	3811	70.2	3558	69.4	3610	73.7
NVQ3	1846	59.2	1753	61.8	1814	66.1
NVQ2	4027	49.4	3427	51.9	3619	57.7
NVQ1	1094	35.1	880	36.8	957	42.8
No qualifications	1337	19.7	966	26.0	1045	28.1
Household income	12222	p=0.01	12168	p<0.001	12051	p<0.001
Richest	908	67.4	3126	75.5	1376	70.3
2nd	2304	75.5	3324	69.7	2912	78.2
Middle	2965	69.9	2190	60.8	2888	70.1
4th	3841	48.9	1798	36.0	3100	51.5
Poorest	2204	18.3	1730	21.4	1775	26.5
Maternal depression	12804	p<0.001	11999	p<0.001	12935	p<0.001
Not depressed	11191	56.3	10936	58.3	11733	62.5
Depressed	1613	46.2	1063	33.2	1202	30.3
Partner work status	12738	p<0.001	11663	p<0.001	12173	p<0.001
Partner in work	10036	60.9	9156	62.7	8455	68.1
Partner not in work	967	25.9	697	30.0	660	30.0
No partner	1735	25.2	1810	36.9	3058	49.3