Table 4.
Sex risk behavior by primary income source
| Income source | Legal | Welfare | Sex exchange | Drugs/theft |
| Sexual identification*a | ||||
| Total heterosexual | 73.0% | 54.2% | 39.3% | 60.4% |
| African American | 84.0% | 49.3% | 40.2% | 67.9% |
| Hispanic | 64.9% | 46.1% | 32.2% | 51.2% |
| Asian | 71.7% | 80.0% | 50.0% | 83.3% |
| White | 50.0% | 56.3% | 42.4% | 61.1% |
| Total bisexual | 19.0% | 34.0% | 43.2% | 24.3% |
| African American | 11.9% | 41.3% | 41.4% | 21.4% |
| Hispanic | 20.2% | 38.2% | 52.1% | 26.8% |
| Asian | 22.1% | 13.3% | 43.3% | 16.7% |
| White | 41.2% | 31.0% | 37.1% | 25.0% |
| Total homosexual | 7.9% | 11.9% | 17.5% | 15.3% |
| African American | 4.1% | 9.3% | 18.4% | 10.7% |
| Hispanic | 14.9% | 15.8% | 15.7% | 22.0% |
| Asian | 6.2% | 6.7% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| White | 8.8% | 12.7% | 20.5% | 13.9% |
| Partners in past 3 months** | ||||
| 0 partnersa | 25.8% | 19.4% | 15.4% | 17.3% |
| African American | 25.2% | 23.0% | 10.3% | 3.4% |
| Hispanic | 29.3% | 23.7% | 22.3% | 35.0% |
| Asian | 26.2% | 26.7% | 40.0% | 40.0% |
| White | 8.8% | 7.0% | 7.9% | 5.6% |
| 1–5 partnersa | 55.4% | 40.5% | 28.0% | 30.0% |
| African American | 63.0% | 31.1% | 24.1% | 37.9% |
| Hispanic | 44.0% | 46.1% | 32.2% | 22.5% |
| Asian | 61.8% | 56.7% | 40.0% | 20.0% |
| White | 23.5% | 38.0% | 24.5% | 33.3% |
| 6–10 partnersa | 11.0% | 27.8% | 30.6% | 32.7% |
| African American | 8.8% | 33.8% | 26.4% | 34.5% |
| Hispanic | 14.1% | 18.4% | 26.4% | 25.0% |
| Asian | 6.2% | 13.3% | 3.3% | 40.0% |
| White | 41.2% | 38.0% | 41.7% | 38.9% |
| 11–20 partnersa | 5.5% | 9.5% | 17.7% | 16.4% |
| African American | 1.7% | 10.8% | 24.1% | 20.7% |
| Hispanic | 8.9% | 7.9% | 10.7% | 12.5% |
| Asian | 4.0% | 0.0% | 6.7% | 0.0% |
| White | 23.5% | 14.1% | 21.9% | 19.4% |
| >20 partnersa | 2.2% | 2.8% | 8.2% | 3.6% |
| African American | 1.3% | 1.4% | 14.9% | 3.4% |
| Hispanic | 3.7% | 3.9% | 8.3% | 5.0% |
| Asian | 1.8% | 3.3% | 10.0% | 0.0% |
| White | 2.9% | 2.8% | 4.0% | 2.8% |
| Used alcohol or drugs last time had sex***a | 37.7% | 49.1% | 64.2% | 68.2% |
| African American | 35.8% | 58.6% | 76.8% | 83.3% |
| Hispanic | 42.4% | 44.6% | 60.5% | 52.8% |
| Asian | 34.7% | 41.7% | 60.0% | 50.0% |
| White | 39.4% | 46.0% | 60.6% | 74.3% |
* χ2 = 124.0, df = 6, p < .001; **χ2 = 190.1, df = 12, p < .001; ***χ2 = 77.4, df = 3, p < .001