Table 1. Characteristics of Study Population, by Sex and Sexual Orientation, Oregon Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2005–2008.
| Outcome | Men |
Women |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weighted % |
P a | Weighted % |
P a | |||||
| Heterosexual | Gay | Bisexual | Heterosexual | Lesbian | Bisexual | |||
| Age, y | ||||||||
| 18–34 | 31.8 | 29.3 | 45.1 | .003 | 28.8 | 26.9 | 62.3 | <.001 |
| 35–54 | 38.1 | 50.0 | 33.1 | 36.9 | 54.4 | 30.3 | ||
| ≥55 | 30.1 | 20.8 | 21.8 | 34.3 | 18.7 | 7.3 | ||
| Relationship status | ||||||||
| Married or a member of an unmarried couple | 69.4 | 42.3 | 45.0 | <.001 | 66.3 | 51.6 | 52.4 | <.001 |
| Formerly married | 11.8 | 10.7 | 15.8 | 21.3 | 21.3 | 19.0 | ||
| Never married | 18.8 | 47.0 | 39.3 | 12.4 | 27.1 | 28.6 | ||
| Education | ||||||||
| ≤High school graduate or GED | 36.9 | 23.7 | 36.0 | .02 | 36.3 | 19.1 | 27.9 | <.001 |
| 1–3 college years | 27.2 | 28.8 | 28.7 | 31.7 | 27.3 | 33.7 | ||
| ≥4 college years | 35.9 | 47.4 | 35.3 | 32.0 | 53.6 | 38.4 | ||
| Residencyb | ||||||||
| Urban | 69.4 | 79.2 | 78.6 | .03 | 69.3 | 77.3 | 78.4 | .01 |
| Rural | 30.6 | 20.8 | 21.4 | 30.7 | 22.7 | 21.6 | ||
| Employment status | ||||||||
| Employed | 66.6 | 74.9 | 72.3 | .09 | 51.0 | 73.9 | 57.0 | <.001 |
| Unemployed or unable to work | 10.8 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 13.1 | 15.0 | ||
| Not in workforce | 22.6 | 15.6 | 18.1 | 39.5 | 13.0 | 28.0 | ||
| Annual household income, $ | ||||||||
| <20,000 | 11.1 | 11.0 | 17.0 | .32 | 14.2 | 13.0 | 20.4 | <.001 |
| 20,000–49,999 | 42.9 | 46.1 | 47.1 | 44.9 | 46.6 | 55.8 | ||
| ≥50,000 | 46.0 | 42.9 | 35.9 | 40.8 | 40.4 | 23.8 | ||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||
| White, non-Latino | 85.9 | 88.8 | 83.4 | .51 | 86.7 | 81.6 | 85.8 | .14 |
| All other races and Latino ethnicity | 14.1 | 11.2 | 16.6 | 13.3 | 18.4 | 14.2 | ||
Abbreviation: GED, general educational development.
a
Calculated using a Pearson χ2 test.
b
Rural or urban residency was determined using zip codes classified by Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes (10).