TABLE 1.
Demographic Characteristics of Rural and Urban Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents: British Columbia Adolescent Health Survey, 2003
| Adolescent Boys |
Adolescent Girls |
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| Rural (n = 199) | Urban (n = 1913) | χ2 (df) | Rural (n = 538) | Urban (n = 4255) | χ2 (df) | |
| Mean age,a y | 15.8 | 15.7 | … | 15.6 | 15.5 | … |
| European ethnicity,b % | 80.9 | 56.7 | 43.50** (1) | 82.2 | 67.7 | 46.97** (1) |
| Aboriginal ethnicity,b % | 17.6 | 8.6 | 17.24** (1) | 20.0 | 13.1 | 19.10** (1) |
| Recent immigrant (lived in Canada for ≤ 5 y), % | 2.5 | 12.6 | 17.92** (1) | 0.0 | 14.6 | 90.40** (1) |
| Living with 2 parents, % | 62.3 | 62.2 | 0.00 (1) | 61.8 | 57.5 | 3.61 (1) |
| Lived in foster/group home in past year, % | 2.5 | 3.7 | 0.75 (1) | 4.1 | 4.0 | 0.03 (1) |
| Ran away from home in past year, % | 17.6 | 13.0 | 3.21 (1) | 31.1 | 28.6 | 1.47 (1) |
| Moved in past year, % | 37.4 | 25.8 | 12.17** (1) | 38.9 | 40.2 | 0.34 (1) |
Note. Data were weighted to provincial enrollment and adjusted for differential probability of sampling and differential response rates.
a
For boys, t = −0.79; df = 255 (not significant); equal variances not assumed. For girls, t = −0.88; df = 4791 (not significant).
b
Other ethnicity responses were available and participants could choose more than 1 response.
**P < .001.