Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the weighted Teen Health and Technology sample (n = 5,542)
| Demographic characteristics | Cisgender male (n = 2,255) | Cisgender female (n = 2,823) | ||||||||
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| Heterosexual (n = 1,493) | Gay, queer (n = 636) | Bisexual (n = 60) | QUO (n = 66) | p- value | Heterosexual (n = 1,842) | Lesbian, gay, queer (n = 377) | Bisexual (n = 456) | QUO (n = 148) | p- value | |
| Age (M:SE) | 15.4 (0.05) | 16.2 (0.2) | 16.6 (0.3) | 15.2 (.2) | <0.001 | 15.7 (0.05) | 16.1 (0.2) | 15.8 (0.1) | 15.3 (0.2) | 0.005 |
| % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | % (n) | |||
| Race | <0.001 | 0.57 | ||||||||
| White | 72.4% (1224) | 63.1% (441) | 49.4% (41) | 76.4% (53) | 66.2% (1312) | 64.6% (275) | 65.8% (320) | 57.3% (95) | ||
| Black/African American | 14.2% (106) | 10.4% (30) | 2.2% (1) | 12.5% (6) | 14.7% (231) | 13.7% (26) | 9.9% (26) | 20.7% (21) | ||
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 1.8% (35) | 3.4% (23) | 2.3% (1) | 3.6% (3) | 3.1% (70) | 3.0% (9) | 3.9% (29) | 5.8% (11) | ||
| Native American | 2.7% (28) | 0.7% (10) | 0.3% (1) | 2.4% (1) | 3.1% (39) | 2.8% (5) | 3.8% (11) | 2.3% (2) | ||
| Mixed | 6.5% (75) | 15.4% (89) | 20.3% (11) | 5.1% (3) | 7.6% (123) | 11.2% (41) | 11.7% (52) | 8.5% (13) | ||
| All other | 2.5% (25) | 7.0% (43) | 25.5% (5) | 0.0% (0) | 5.4% (67) | 4.7% (21) | 4.9% (18) | 5.3% (6) | ||
| Hispanic | 17.3% (139) | 28.0% (122) | 42.5% (12) | 12.9% (5) | <0.001 | 18.8% (213) | 14.6% (50) | 18.4% (57) | 17.2% (19) | 0.73 |
| Urbanicity | 0.17 | 0.19 | ||||||||
| Urban | 27.9% (399) | 32.1% (212) | 31.5% (16) | 30.6% (19) | 26.3% (507) | 27.2% (110) | 28.4% (147) | 29.3% (46) | ||
| Suburban | 32.5% (608) | 41.5% (238) | 30.2% (27) | 35.6% (28) | 29.7% (706) | 34.8% (166) | 36.4% (194) | 33.6% (58) | ||
| Small town | 39.6% (486) | 26.4% (186) | 38.3% (17) | 33.7% (19) | 44.1% (629) | 38.0% (101) | 35.2% (115) | 37.1% (44) | ||
| Household income | 0.43 | 0.02 | ||||||||
| Lower than average | 26.6% (339) | 34.7% (143) | 24.0% (9) | 19.5% (12) | 27.5% (438) | 21.9% (73) | 35.2% (134) | 28.1% (34) | ||
| Average | 58.6% (877) | 54.1% (359) | 61.5% (36) | 62.1% (39) | 60.8% (1134) | 62.6% (234) | 58.0% (259) | 61.8% (96) | ||
| Higher than Average | 14.8% (277) | 11.2% (134) | 14.5% (15) | 18.5% (15) | 11.7% (270) | 15.5% (70) | 6.8% (63) | 10.2% (18) | ||
Note. Data were collected online between August 2010–January 2011.
QUO = questioning, unsure, and youth of an ‘other’ sexual identity