Potential correlates of recovery were measured as of the year preceding the baseline Wave 1 interview unless otherwise noted. Marital status, parenthood, education and employment were coded using two different sets of variables roughly analogous to those used in prior analyses (Dawson et al., 2005, 2006b). In the first set, dummy variables for marital status consisted of divorced/separated and never married (referent = married, cohabiting or widowed); having an infant <1 year of age in the household was based on household screening data; education was dichotomized as having attended college versus not; and employment (any full- or part-time work in the year preceding baseline) distinguished individuals who reported job problems (fired or laid off, unemployed and looking for work for >1 month, troubles with a boss or coworker) from those who did not (referent = did not work in past year). In the second set, ages at initiation and termination of first marriage, birth/arrival of first child, completion of highest level of schooling and start of first full-time job yielded pairs of dummy variables that measured whether these events occurred <3 years prior to baseline or 3+ years prior to baseline (referent = did not occur prior to baseline).
