Table 12.

Descriptive statistics for education and population sizes of places of residence in the female sample

	Level	Sexual orientation				Total	p
		Straight		Lesbian
		N	%	N	%
Education	Primary	5	1.5	11	4.2	16	< .001
	Upper secondary (vocational)	7	2.1	22	8.3	29
	Upper secondary (high school graduation)	122	36.9	140	52.8	262
	Tertiary (bachelor’s degree or equivalent)	77	23.3	50	18.9	127
	Tertiary (master’s degree or equivalent)	102	30.8	38	14.3	140
	Tertiary (doctorate or equivalent)	17	5.1	3	1.1	20
	< missing >	1	0.3	1	0.4	2
Population size of place of residence in childhood	< 1000	39	11.8	45	17.0	84	.029
	1000–5000	53	16.0	39	14.7	92
	5000–50,000	96	29.0	88	33.2	184
	50,000–500,000	73	22.1	59	22.3	132
	> 500,000	68	20.5	31	11.7	99
	< missing >	2	0.6	3	1.1	5
Population size of place of residence (current)	< 1000	30	9.1	18	6.8	48	.061
	1000–5000	24	7.3	27	10.2	51
	5000–50,000	61	18.4	57	21.5	118
	50,000–500,000	77	23.3	78	29.4	155
	> 500,000	127	38.4	77	29.1	204
	< missing >	12	3.6	8	3.0	20
Total			331		265	596