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 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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