TABLE 1—

Sociodemographic Characteristics of Respondents Reporting Opposite-Sex Romantic Relationships: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

	Sample (n = 7493)a
Characteristic	n	%b
Sex
Male	3405	46.8
Female	4088	53.2
Age, y
12–14	899	16.0
15–17	4452	59.4
18–21	2140	24.5
Hispanic/Latino
No	6201	88.3
Yes	1274	11.4
Race
White	4698	73.6
Black	1404	13.7
American Indian/Alaskan native	84	1.0
Asian/Pacific Islander	402	2.4
Other	905	9.3
Highest family education
Less than high school	885	11.3
High school graduate	2078	29.5
Some education beyond high school	1560	22.0
College graduate or higher	2602	32.3
Missing	368	4.8
Family structure
2 biological parents	3822	51.8
Other 2 parents	1395	18.3
No father figure	1602	20.9
No mother figure	239	3.4
Other	435	5.6
Religion
Very important	2856	35.8
Fairly important	2673	35.9
Fairly unimportant/not important	953	28.1
Missing	11	0.1
School size
Small	1072	16.5
Medium	2732	43.8
Large	3683	39.6
Missing	6
No. of relationships reported
1	5129	67.3
2	1553	21.5
3	811	11.2
Grade point average
Mean		2.77
Standard error of mean		0.02
n	7267

^aSample size varies across variables owing to missing data.

^bAll percentages are adjusted for sampling probability; listed sample sizes are unweighted.