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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers. 2016 Dec 8;4(1):115–123. doi: 10.1037/sgd0000211

Table 1.

Demographics for those indicating sexual orientation in the BC AHS, by year*

1998 2003 2008 2013

Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls
Unweighted n 10,852 12,006 14,523 14,800 12,250 12,977 10,758 11,180
Weighted N 130,533 146,091 138,795 140,932 108,239 115,319 89,220 92,887
% each year 47.2 52.8 49.6 50.4 48.4 51.6 49.0 51.0
Sexual orientation, %
100% heterosexual 93.8 (14.8) 90.3 (14.8) 95.3 (15.0) 87.4 (14.9) 94.1 (15.0) 86.7 (15.0) 93.1 (15.0) 85.6 (14.9)
Mostly heterosexual 4.2 (15.2) 7.6 (15.6) 3.2 (15.4) 9.2 (15.6) 3.9 (15.6) 9.6 (15.6) 4.4 (15.5) 9.5 (15.6)
Bisexual 1.1 (14.7) 1.9 (15.5) 0.9 (15.5) 3.0 (15.6) 1.1 (15.6) 3.2 (15.4) 1.4 (15.6) 4.0 (15.6)
Gay/lesbian 0.9 (15.3) 0.3 (14.8) 0.6 (15.9) 0.3 (14.9) 0.9 (15.8) 0.5 (15.5) 1.1 (15.7) 0.9 (15.5)
*

Mean age reported in parentheses