Table 2.

Descriptive data for three groups: those who had an HIV test within the current or previous calendar year, those who had a test prior to that, and those who had never had an HIV test.

Variable	Group Mean/Median or Percent
	Recent Testers (N=291)	Past Testers (N=152)	Non-Testers (N=445)
Demographics
Age***	24.7 / 23	27.5 / 25	22.6 / 22
Education*** (range: 1-10)	6.7 / 7	6.6 / 7	6.2 / 7
Income*** (range: 0-7)	3.1 / 3	3.3 / 3	2.1 / 2
Health Insurance
Contributory***	43%	34%	19%
Subsidized***	22%	29%	41%
Linked	11%	9%	11%
None or don’t know	24%	28%	29%
Risk Appraisal
Ever had STI***	42%	41%	17%
Know people with HIV *** (range: 0-3)	0.9 / 1	1.1 / 1	0.7 / 0
Social Context
Social support** (range: 0-4)	2.2 / 2.2	2.2 / 2.2	1.9 / 2.0
Experienced homonegativity	1.1 / 1.0	1.1 / 1.3	1.0 / 1.0

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .0001

Note: Kruskal-Wallis Tests were used for non-parametric analysis of group differences on ordinal variables. Chi-square tests for Independence were used for analysis of group differences on dichotomous variables.