Table 3.

Comparisons of the total and expected^a numbers of all male siblings, older male siblings and younger male siblings for fa'afafine and gynephilic males.

	Fa'afafine					gynephilic males
sibling category	total	expected	s.d.	z	pb	total	expected	s.d.	z	pb
all	279	277	11.53	0.17	0.8650	233	259	11.15	−2.33	0.0198
older	188	187	9.48	0.11	0.9124	140	147	8.40	−0.83	0.4065
younger	91	89	6.55	0.31	0.7566	93	112	7.33	−2.59	0.0096

^aCalculated as the total number of siblings for each category multiplied by 0.52, which is the number of live male births divided by the total number of live births reported by the Samoan Statistical Services Division of the Ministry of Finance (2006).

^bTwo-tailed p.