Table 2.
Variable Means and Standard Deviations, by Time Period and Policy Type
| In State Policy States | In FDA Only Policy States | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Available OTC = 0 | EC Available OTC = 1 | EC Available OTC = 0 | EC Available OTC = 1 | |||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Sexually active | 0.713 | 0.453 | 0.852 | 0.355 | 0.851 | 0.356 | 0.853 | 0.354 |
| Respondent had multiple sex partners | 0.408 | 0.492 | 0.376 | 0.484 | 0.447 | 0.497 | 0.296 | 0.457 |
| Respondent had any unprotected sexual encounters and multiple partners | 0.508 | 0.501 | 0.427 | 0.495 | 0.453 | 0.498 | 0.553 | 0.497 |
| Currently married and living together | 0.0639 | 0.245 | 0.214 | 0.410 | 0.135 | 0.341 | 0.298 | 0.457 |
| Cohabitating without marriage | 0.118 | 0.323 | 0.191 | 0.393 | 0.148 | 0.355 | 0.210 | 0.407 |
| Currently single | 0.818 | 0.386 | 0.595 | 0.491 | 0.717 | 0.450 | 0.492 | 0.500 |
| Observations | 1,111 | 4,154 | 17,195 | 11,570 | ||||
Note. All NSLY97 women were over 18 at time of survey round.