TABLE 1—
Age-Adjusted Prevalence of the Acceptability of Home Rapid Test Kit Use for HIV Among New York City Adults (Aged 18–64 Years): 2006 New York City Community Health Survey
| Characteristic | Weighted No.a | % (95% CI) |
| Overall | 2 616 000 | 56.2 (54.7, 57.7) |
| Age group, y | ||
| 18–24 | 491 000 | 70.3 (65.5, 74.6) |
| 25–44 | 1 428 000 | 59.3 (57.1, 61.4) |
| 45–64 | 696 000 | 46.0 (43.9, 48.1) |
| Gender | ||
| Male | 1 236 000 | 55.8 (53.6, 57.9) |
| Female | 1 380 000 | 56.6 (54.6, 58.6) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||
| Non-Hispanic White | 653 000 | 40.0 (37.4, 42.6) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 763 000 | 70.7 (68.1, 73.2) |
| Hispanic | 895 000 | 73.3 (70.8, 75.7) |
| Other | 305 000 | 44.0 (39.9, 48.1) |
| Sexual partners, past 12 mo | ||
| 0 | 435 000 | 57.9 (54.2, 61.6) |
| 1 | 1 565 000 | 54.9 (52.9, 56.9) |
| ≥ 2 | 431 000 | 73.6 (69.6, 77.2) |
| MSM behavior, past 12 mob | ||
| MSM behavior | 54 000 | 67.6 (57.1, 76.6) |
| No MSM behavior, includes women | 2 459 000 | 56.5 (55.0, 58.0) |
| Recent testing behavior, past 12 mo | ||
| Recent test | 988 000 | 68.2 (65.6, 70.7) |
| No recent test | 1 584 000 | 51.4 (49.6, 53.3) |
Note. CI = confidence interval; MSM = men who have sex with men. Age-adjusted to the US 2000 Standard Population. Community Health Survey 2006 data were weighted to the New York City adult population per Census 2000.7,8 The sample size was n = 6639 for this analysis.
a
Weighted population estimates are rounded to the nearest thousand.
b
MSM behavior was defined as all men who reported MSM behavior in the past 12 months (vs all women and all other men who did not report MSM behavior).