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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2013 Jul;40(7):575–581. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31829529cf

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics by income quintile of a sample of respondents from Waves I to III of Add Health



Poorest 2nd poorest Middle 2nd richest Richest Total


No. of respondents 2,107 2,154 2,195 2,119 2,216 10,791
No. of STI diagnoses 14.7% (1.4%) 10.6% (1.2%) 8.3% (0.9%) 7.4% (0.7%) 5.2% (0.6%) 9.2% (0.6%)
Individual Race/Ethnicity
 White non-Hispanic 45.8% (4.5%) 62.5% (3.7%) 74.4% (3.0%) 82.7% (2.1%) 83.4% (2.0%) 70.0% (2.9%)
 Black non-Hispanic 29.1% (4.2%) 18.6% (2.7%) 11.7% (2.0%) 6.5% (1.1%) 6.9% (1.2%) 14.4% (2.1%)
 Hispanic 20.5% (3.7%) 13.5% (2.3%) 9.4% (1.4%) 7.2% (1.2%) 5.1% (0.7%) 11.0% (1.7%)
 Other non-Hispanic 4.6% (1.1%) 5.4% (1.3%) 4.4% (1.1%) 3.6% (0.8%) 4.6% (1.0%) 4.5% (0.8%)
Sex
 Male 48.6% (1.7%) 49.8% (1.4%) 46.7% (1.3%) 49.4% (1.9%) 49.3% (1.4%) 48.7% (0.7%)
 Female 51.4% (1.7%) 50.2% (1.4%) 53.3% (1.3%) 50.6% (1.9%) 50.7% (1.4%) 51.3% (0.7%)
Age at baseline
 <14 18.9% (2.5%) 20.5% (2.4%) 21.6% (2.9%) 21.0% (2.8%) 18.8% (2.7%) 20.1% (2.2%)
 14 20.1% (2.4%) 18.0% (1.8%) 15.7% (1.4%) 15.9% (1.6%) 16.1% (1.7%) 17.1% (1.4%)
 15 17.5% (1.2%) 17.2% (1.3%) 18.0% (1.3%) 16.7% (1.2%) 17.2% (1.6%) 17.4% (0.9%)
 16 15.8% (1.6%) 15.6% (1.4%) 17.0% (1.5%) 17.7% (1.5%) 16.0% (1.4%) 16.4% (1.1%)
 17 15.2% (1.7%) 14.4% (1.4%) 15.2% (1.2%) 16.5% (1.5%) 19.6% (1.6%) 16.2% (1.1%)
 >17 12.5% (1.7%) 14.4% (1.5%) 12.5% (1.3%) 12.2% (1.1%) 12.3% (1.1%) 12.8% (1.0%)
Urbanicity
 Urban 33.1% (5.6%) 28.3% (4.6%) 23.7% (4.0%) 21.3% (3.7%) 22.6% (4.5%) 25.7% (3.9%)
 Suburban 45.6% (5.8%) 53.6% (5.2%) 58.8% (5.5%) 65.2% (5.0%) 67.2% (5.6%) 58.2% (4.8%)
 Rural 21.2% (5.3%) 18.0% (4.3%) 17.5% (5.5%) 13.4% (4.3%) 10.2% (4.1%) 16.0% (4.2%)
Region
 West 12.6% (3.5%) 14.1% (3.1%) 15.7% (3.3%) 17.7% (3.6%) 22.1% (4.8%) 16.5% (3.2%)
 Midwest 28.9% (5.7%) 31.3% (5.2%) 35.0% (5.9%) 31.5% (5.6%) 33.3% (6.8%) 32.0% (5.1%)
 South 47.6% (5.9%) 41.6% (5.0%) 35.4% (4.8%) 34.5% (4.9%) 27.5% (4.7%) 37.1% (4.5%)
 Northeast 11.0% (3.2%) 13.0% (3.3%) 13.9% (3.3%) 16.4% (3.8%) 17.1% (4.2%) 14.3% (3.1%)
Type of school
 Public 98.1% (1.0%) 95.0% (1.9%) 93.2% (2.3%) 91.8% (2.9%) 88.4% (3.8%) 93.3% (2.0%)
 Private 1.9% (1.0%) 5.0% (1.9%) 6.8% (2.3%) 8.2% (2.9%) 11.6% (3.8%) 6.7% (2.0%)
Per capita family income,
equivalized scale $
Mean (95% confidence interval) 4,972 (4,783-5,160) 12,139 (12,009-12,270) 18,674 (18,543-18,805) 26,425 (26,255-26,595) 49,428 (46,068-52,787) 22,660 (20,972-24,348)

Percentages (and Standard Errors) are based on data weighted for non-random sampling and non-response.