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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Sex Behav. 2017 Dec 4;48(4):1087–1097. doi: 10.1007/s10508-017-1082-6

Table 1.

Participant demographic information

Young men N (%) Young women N (%)
Sexual orientation: identity based
 Heterosexual/straight 2263 (92.9) 1928 (84.5)
 Gay or lesbian 52 (2.2) 47 (2.1)
 Bisexual 54 (2.2) 216 (9.5)
 Question/other 66 (2.7) 88 (3.9)
Sexual orientation: behavior based
 With females 1959 (93.4) 43 (2.2)
 With males 56 (2.7) 1759 (90.0)
 With females and males 82 (3.9) 152 (7.8)
Gender
 Male 2442 (51.7)
 Female 2281 (48.3)
Race/ethnicity
 Asian (not Hmong identified) 46 (1.9) 41 (1.8)
 Asian (Hmong identified) 15 (0.6) 12 (0.5)
 Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 169 (6.9) 102 (4.5)
 Hispanic or Latino 131 (5.4) 130 (5.7)
 Middle Eastern/Arab American 11 (0.5) 8 (0.4)
 Native American 18 (0.7) 19 (0.8)
 White (non-Hispanic) 1851 (76.0) 1791 (78.6)
 Multiracial 168 (6.9) 155 (6.8)
 Other 28 (1.1) 21 (0.9)
Age
 14 years old or younger 127 (5.2) 109 (4.8)
 15 years old 459 (18.8) 372 (16.3)
 16 years old 672 (27.5) 636 (27.9)
 17 years old 752 (30.8) 808 (35.4)
 18 years old or older 432 (17.7) 356 (15.6)

Sample sizes are reported for the original pre-weighted sample. Percentages are within gender with the exception of the percentages for the gender item, for which the percentages reflect the total sample