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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2011 Aug;48(3):1151–1176. doi: 10.1007/s13524-011-0051-2

Table 4. Percentage of Respondents with Sexual Partners in the Tails of the Distributions by Sex of Respondent and Instrument Type.

Males Females


Lifetime Last year Lifetime Last year




No. of partners RHC SPQ p value RHC SPQ p value RHC SPQ p value RHC SPQ p value
Left tail
 0 11.5 6.8 0.043 30.3 18.4 0.001 15.1 14.9 0.942 25.3 26.1 0.822
 1 19.8 15.2 0.136 43.9 54.5 0.008 33.7 31.1 0.486 61.2 68.9 0.042
 2 21.3 13.3 0.008 15.8 17.7 0.509 26.9 21.6 0.119 -- --
Right tail
 2+ -- -- -- -- -- -- 13.5 5.0 0.000
 5+ -- -- 2.5 1.9 0.618 5.7 5.9 0.937 -- --
 10+ 8.6 12.6 0.103 -- -- -- -- -- --
 15+ 5.1 5.5 0.821 -- -- -- -- -- --

Notes: RHC = Relationship History Calendar; SPQ = Sexual Partnership Questionnaire

Chi-square tests