Table 1.
Percent distribution of respondents’ socio-demographic and psycho-sexual characteristics
| Characteristics | Women
|
Men
|
|---|---|---|
| (n=1849) [col %a] | (n=1607) [col %] | |
| Socio-demographic variables | ||
| Age | ||
| 15–19 | 30.1 | 28.4 |
| 20–24 | 69.9 | 71.7 |
| Education | ||
| No HS diploma or GED | 25.8 | 32.2 |
| HS diploma or GED | 27.7 | 26.4 |
| Any college or more | 46.6 | 41.3 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||
| White, Non-Hispanic | 63.2 | 57.8 |
| Black, Non-Hispanic | 14.9 | 18.4 |
| Other, Non-Hispanic | 5.7 | 3.8 |
| Hispanic | 16.2 | 20.0 |
| Union status | ||
| Married | 17.3 | 13.3 |
| Cohabitating | 21.4 | 19.7 |
| Single, not cohabitating | 61.3 | 67.1 |
| Mother’s Education | ||
| Less than high school | 16.6 | 15.9 |
| High school graduate or GED | 31.7 | 32.2 |
| Some college or more | 5.2 | 51.9 |
| Received Public Assistance in Last Year | ||
| Yes | 33.9 | 28.3 |
| No | 66.1 | 71.7 |
| Religion | ||
| No religion | 21.1 | 29.2 |
| Catholic | 25.3 | 24.3 |
| Protestant | 45.8 | 40.4 |
| Other religions | 7.8 | 6.1 |
| Current Health InsurancebCurrent Health Insuranceb | ||
| No insurance | 23.9 | 28.0 |
| Private insurance | 53.4 | 55.2 |
| Public insurance | 22.7 | 16.9 |
| Psycho-sexual variablesc | ||
| If you got pregnant/got your partner pregnant, how would you feel? | ||
| Upset | 69.6 | 59.0 |
| Pleased | 30.1 | 39.4 |
| Wouldn’t care | 0.3 | 1.6 |
| Chances of reduced physical pleasure if condom used | ||
| a little chance or no chance | 61.5 | 30.8 |
| 50–50 chance | 20.4 | 26.5 |
| a pretty good chance or certain chance | 18.2 | 42.8 |
a
All the percentages are weighted to account for survey design effects. Column % refers to percent among all women or men.
b c
Column numbers do not sum to total because of missing data on psycho-sexual variables