Table 1.
Baseline demographic characteristics of homeless and unstably housed adult women living in San Francisco, CA (N=300) by sexual orientation and differences in demographic characteristics by sexual orientation
| Total (N=300) | Sexual Orientation |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heterosexual (n=228) | Lesbian (n=22) | Bisexual (n=50) | p | ||
| Age M (SD) | 47.05 (8.68) | 47.49 (8.65) | 45.77 (8.16) | 45.59 (9.01) | .290 |
| Race n (%) | .746 | ||||
| Black/African American | 130 (43.33%) | 101 (44.30%) | 8 (36.36%) | 21 (42.00%) | |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 10 (3.33%) | 8 (3.51%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (4.00%) | |
| Hispanic/Latina | 15 (5.00%) | 11 (4.82%) | 1 (4.55%) | 3 (6.00%) | |
| Multiracial/Other | 55 (18.33%) | 37 (16.23%) | 5 (22.73%) | 13 (26.00%) | |
| White | 90 (30.00%) | 71 (31.14%) | 8 (36.36%) | 11 (22.00%) | |
| HIV-infected n (%) | 152 (50.67%) | 119 (52.19%) | 5 (22.73%) | 28 (56.00%) | .022 |
| Total time homeless since 18 (in years)a | 6.04 (6.39) | 5.93 (6.60) | 5.30 (5.14) | 6.87 (5.91) | .547 |
| Total time homeless in past 6 months (in months)b | 1.32 (1.97) | 1.34 (2.00) | 1.16 (1.58) | 1.31 (2.00) | .91 |
| Total income in last 6 months | 1185 (1421) | 1140 (1218) | 1044 (653) | 1450 (2268) | .33 |
Note: p values are the result of ANOVA analyses for age and total time homeless, and chi-square analyses for race and HIV status
a
Homeless for the purposes of this measure is defined as nights spent in a shelter, on the street, in an abandoned building, camping, in cars, or staying with someone you could only stay with for 1–2 nights
b
Homeless for the purposes of this measure is defined as nights spent in a shelter, on the street, in an abandoned building, or in a car