TABLE 4—

Factors Associated With Retracting Earlier-Reported Sexual Experience: Respondents in Waves 1 and 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 1995–1996

	No.	Retracting, %	Odds Ratio (95%Confidence Interval) (n = 4678)
Overall reports	5156	10.4
Gender			2.00 (1.54, 2.59)
Boys	2678	13.4
Girls	2481	7.0
Age, y			2.36 (1.71, 3.25)
<15	678	19.9
≥15	4479	8.5
Ethnicity			1.14 (0.80, 1.63)
Black	1610	13.1
Non-Black	3542	9.3
Vocabulary test score			1.29 (0.96, 1.74)
Lower quartile	1510	14.8
Upper 3 quartiles	3649	8.8
Home language			2.31 (1.40, 3.81)
Not English	446	23.6
English	4713	9.6
Honesty in responding, wave 1			0.64 (0.45, 0.93)
Honest	4507	9.1
Not honest	619	19.8
Honesty in responding, wave 2			0.60 (0.39, 0.91)
Honest	4389	9.0
Not honest	737	19.1
No. of sex partners, wave 1			1.87 (1.44, 2.45)
1	2485	13.7
>1	2674	7.4
Born-again Christian, wave 1			1.14 (0.82, 1.60)
Yes	1232	11.3
No	3927	10.0
Virginity pledge, wave 1			2.43 (1.53, 3.85)
Yes	233	23.4
No	4888	9.7
Recently born again, wave 2			2.02 (1.32, 3.11)
Yes	416	18.4
No	4743	9.7
Recent virginity pledge, wave 2			3.88 (1.87, 8.07)
Yes	106	28.0
No	5053	10.0

Note. The percentage of retractions was computed with sample weights. Odds ratios were calculated from the complete case logistic regression and thus included fewer observations than the total number of respondents eligible to retract their wave 1 reports.