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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2013 Dec;17(10):10.1007/s10995-013-1221-1. doi: 10.1007/s10995-013-1221-1

Table 1.

Sociodemographic Characteristics of Female Adolescents Stratified by their Lifetime Experiences of Sexual Violence and Other Violence Exposures over the Past Year (n=8531)

Both Sexual* and Non-Sexual Violence (n=404) Sexual Violence* Only (n=234) Non-Sexual Violence Only (n=3064) No Violence (n=4829)

Total n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) p-value
Age (at Wave I) 0.0001
 < 16 years 4059 119 (2.9) 48 (1.0) 1648 (40) 2244 (56)
 16–18 3230 205 (6.7) 115 (4.0) 1065 (32) 1845 (58)
 > 18 1242 80 (6.8) 71 (5.3) 351 (27) 740 (61)
Race/ethnicity 0.0001
 White 4936 212 (4.2) 160 (2.7) 1431 (30) 3133 (63)
 Black 2045 128 (7.3) 49 (2.5) 986 (50) 882 (40)
 Hispanic 1550 64 (4.2) 25 (1.3) 647 (46) 814 (48)
Parental education level 0.0001
 Some College or beyond 4359 172 (3.8) 128 (2.7) 1375 (30) 2684 (63)
 No College 4172 232 (5.6) 106 (2.3) 1689 (41) 2145 (51)

Note: All percentages are adjusted for sampling probability; sample sizes are unweighted.

*

Sexual violence is defined as having ever been physically forced to have sexual intercourse against your will.

Non-sexual violence includes at least one or more of the following types of violence in the past 12 months: participating in a physical fight; having a knife or gun pulled on you, being jumped, shot, or stabbed; shot, or stabbed; and observing a shooting or stabbing.