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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Q. 2010;51(3):408–435. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2010.01177.x

Table 5.

Odds Ratios from Logit Regression Models Predicting College Women’s Sexual Behavior

Had sex in last month Still a virgin
Model 1 Model 2 Model 1 Model 2
Campus percent women 1.012 1.030+ .962* .950**
Individual Characteristics
Sophomore 1.134 1.173 .855 .715
Junior 2.683*** 2.358** .585+ .748
Senior 1.512 1.431 .678 .846
Black 1.272 1.616 1.161 1.088
Asian .817 1.085 2.755** 2.285*
Other race .677 .675 2.289* 2.333*
Religious service attendance .605*** .582*** 1.649*** 1.594***
Traditionalist sex attitudes .847*** .778*** 1.275*** 1.316***
Lives off campus .908 .951 .678 .641+
Campus Characteristics
Campus in Northeast 1.394 1.766* .801 .788
Campus has <= 5,000 students .956 .836 1.198 1.260
Greek life 1.326 1.663 .860 .789
Private college .812 1.028 1.605 1.469
Conservative Protestant college .222+ .482 5.265** 4.222**
College acceptance rate 1.008 1.007 .992 1.000
Percent residential students 1.002 1.005 .995 .994
Dating Behavior and Relationship Status
Has a boyfriend now 23.356*** .182***
Past boyfriend in college 2.954** .366**
Model Fit Statistics
−2 log likelihood 1097.086 879.209 1070.100 1002.804
Pseudo R-square .149 .318 .202 .253
+

p < .10

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001

Notes: Reference groups are freshman, White, public college, and no boyfriend in college. Data are weighted to reflect the regional distribution of college students. Standard errors are adjusted to account for clustering within colleges. N = 986.