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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Youth Soc. 2011 Mar;43(1):118–141. doi: 10.1177/0044118X09351285

Table 1.

Overview and Description of Reported Survey Measures

Demographic characteristics
  • Gender

  • Age

  • School status

  • Employment status

  • Time with friends

  • Personal expenses

  • Personal possessions

  • Satellite television exposure

  • Social gathering places

  • Contact with tourists or other foreigners

Relationships and sexual intimacy
  • Past and present romantic relationships

  • Sexual touching

    • “Have you ever sexually touched a boy/girl?”

    • “Have you ever been touched sexually?”

  • Three sexual behavior questions (vaginal, anal, oral)

  • Frequency of condom use

  • Number of sexual partners

    For analysis purposes, we combined the two “sexual touch” questions into one variable “anytouch,” and the vaginal, anal, and oral sex questions into one variable “anysex”. We then created three mutually exclusive categories from these variables including “no intimacy,” “touchonly,” and “anysex.” This enabled us to analyze as a separate category those who only engaged in sexual touching but had not engaged in vaginal, oral, and/or anal sex.

Alcohol consumption.
  • Ever drinking alcohol

  • Age of first alcohol consumption

  • Alcohol consumption in the past 6 months

  • Being drunk in the past 6 months

    Mutually exclusive categories were developed for “never drank,” “drank 6-months ago or longer,” and “drank within the past 6-months.”

Timeline followback method The TLFB is a self-report method to assess an individual’s recent daily drinking behavior. Respondents were asked to recall the number of standardized alcoholic drinks and the number of hours in which they consumed the drinks, over the 30 days prior to the survey interview. A calendar was provided with important dates and holidays indicated as well as information and photographs illustrating a standard drink or unit of alcohol based on locally available and popular alcoholic beverages.
Episode specific drinking and sexual behavior
  • “After your partner drank alcohol, but you did not, have you ever had sex (vaginal, anal, and/or oral)?”

  • “After you drank alcohol, but your partner did not, have you ever had sex ….”

  • “After both you and your partner drank alcohol, have you ever had sex ….”