TABLE 2.

Distribution of Exposure Variables: Aboriginal Adolescent Health Survey, British Columbia, 2003

	Young Women		Young Men
	Total No.	% or Mean	Total No.	% or Mean
All Aboriginal young people
Age, y	1336	14.8a	1140	14.7a
≤ 14		46.0		48.5
15–16		34.9		30.2
≥ 17		19.1		21.3
Where learned about culture
Family	1171	76.4	990	69.9
School	1166	77.5	991	68.0
Community	1167	55.4	983	48.7
Ever lived on a reserve	1163	26.9	974	29.4
Helped in community in the past year	1254	35.4	1057	22.4
Helped neighbors in the past year	1269	69.0	1062	59.2
School connectedness (range, 1–5)	1326	3.53a	1123	3.54a
Peers would be angry you were involved in a pregnancy	1289	74.8	1075	54.8
Family connectedness (range, 1–3)	1327	2.38a	1123	2.50a
Higher lifetime substance use	1303	27.2	1098	22.6
Aboriginal young people who have had sexual intercourse
Ever been sexually abused or forced to have sexual intercourse	437	40.2	346	10.1
Used other contraception at last act of sexual intercourse	436	30.6	354	13.8
Used substance at last act of sexual intercourse	440	34.9	350	33.8

Note. Analyses are based on weighted data and are adjusted for survey design. Total number of all Aboriginal young people in each analysis varied because of missing data. Total number of sexually experienced young women was 445; total number of sexually experienced young men was 360.

^aMean value.