TABLE 2—

Sources of Sex Education, Reported Sexual Behaviors, Anxiety, and Sex Role Attitude Scores for Puerto Rican and Mexican American Women Aged 14 Through 44 Years: United States, 1995

	(n = 816 000), %	Puerto Ricans (n = 3 415 000), %	Mexican Americans Student t Test
Source of sex education
Reported number of school sex education sources			2.49*
0	21.0	38.3
1–2	22.7	19.4
3–4	56.3	42.3
Ever had sex education on safe sex?
Yes	69.0	48.7
No	31.0	51.3
Ever had sex education on STDs?
Yes	70.2	51.7
No	29.8	48.3
Ever had sex education on abstinence?
Yes	60.3	47.8
No	39.7	52.2
Ever had sex education on birth control?
Yes	70.3	53.5
No	29.7	46.5
Reported number of parental sex education sources
0	55.2	64.1
1–2	20	18.4
3	24.8	17.5
Parents ever talked about STDs?
Yes	31.1	23.5
Parents ever talk about birth control?
Yes	32.9	24.3
Parent ever talk about how pregnancy occurs?
Yes	39.0	31.5
Reported sexual behaviors
Lifetime number of male sexual partners
1	27.9	50.5
2	18.2	17.3
3	19.7	7.5
4–6	16.5	14.5
≥ 7	16.4	10.7
Condom use for disease protection			3.03*
All of the time	30.0	19.2
More than half of the time	13.0	12.3
Half of the time	11.1	11.1
Less than half of the time	13.2	13.2
Not at all	32.6	45.3
Anxiety scorea			2.98*
High	51.5	44.2
Sex role attitude scores			4.42*
Low	31.4	52.9
Medium	34.5	30.1
High	34.1	17.1

Note. STD = sexually transmitted disease.

^aData reported are for those who scored 5 or higher (considered a “high” score), by subgroup.

*P = .01.