Table 1.

Demographic characteristics among sexually active individuals, age 18 or older; estimated from the 1996 NHSDA by self-reports of prior year sexual partner genders. Percentages are estimated using sampling weights.

	Men					Women
Characteristic	Any same-gender partner reported (unweighted n = 98)		Opposite-gender partners only (unweighted n = 3922)		P-value*	Any same-gender partner reported (unweighted n = 96)		Opposite-gender partners only (Unweighted n = 5792)		P-value*
Mean age (years)	34	(1.4)†	37	(0.4)	0.12	33	(1.2)	37	(0.4)	0.002
Level of education (%)					0.5					0.24
Less than 12 years	8	(3)	16	(1)		25	(10)	15	(1)
High school degree	22	(7)	33	(1)		29	(7)	34	(1)
Some college	28	(8)	24	(1)		17	(4)	25	(1)
College degree	42	(8)	28	(2)		29	(7)	25	(1)
Personal annual income more than $20,000 (%)	66	(7)	66	(1)	0.79	36	(7)	33	(1)	0.14
Ethnic/racial background (%)					0.70					0.95
White, not Hispanic	73	(6)	74	(1)		70	(6)	76	(1)
Black, not Hispanic	11	(3)	11	(1)		12	(3)	11	(1)
Hispanic	7	(2)	11	(1)		14	(4)	9	(1)
Other	9	(6)	4	(1)		4	(4)	4	(1)

^*Estimated from logistic modeling evaluating probability of same-gender sex partners from all demographic characteristics (age, ethnicity/race, education, and Income) simultaneously

^†Numbers in parentheses are standard errors