Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of 2015–2016 NSDUH participants ages 18–49 by gender and sexual identity (n=67,354).
| Male | Female | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heterosexual (n=29,798) | Gay (n=776) | Bisexual (n=675) | Heterosexual (n=32,688) | Gay/Lesbian (n=743) | Bisexual (n=2,674) | |
| Age | ||||||
| 18–25 | 26.0% | 30.1% | 42.9% | 24.2% | 33.1% | 47.3% |
| 26–34 | 28.7% | 34.7% | 27.5% | 28.4% | 32.6% | 31.4% |
| 35–49 | 45.3% | 35.1% | 29.6% | 47.4% | 34.3% | 21.3% |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| White | 58.5% | 57.6% | 56.2% | 57.4% | 55.0% | 61.6% |
| Black | 12.2% | 12.1% | 9.8% | 13.7% | 20.0% | 14.9% |
| Hispanic | 20.5% | 20.4% | 24.6% | 19.4% | 18.3% | 14.8% |
| Asian | 6.1% | 5.5% | 5.2% | 6.8% | 3.0% | 3.5% |
| Other | 2.7% | 4.4% | 4.2% | 2.7% | 3.7% | 5.3% |
| Education | ||||||
| < High school | 14.1% | 7.5% | 15.2% | 10.2% | 9.4% | 14.1% |
| High school | 26.9% | 20.1% | 28.2% | 20.3% | 24.9% | 27.6% |
| Some college / 2 yr degree | 31.5% | 31.9% | 33.8% | 36.3% | 37.0% | 39.5% |
| 4 yr college degree | 27.5% | 40.5% | 22.8% | 33.3% | 28.8% | 18.9% |
| Urbanicity | ||||||
| Large metro | 56.6% | 67.7% | 60.9% | 57.3% | 55.7% | 59.0% |
| Small metro | 29.4% | 24.3% | 27.4% | 29.3% | 31.3% | 28.3% |
| Non-metro | 14.0% | 8.0% | 11.7% | 13.4% | 13.1% | 12.7% |
| Employment | ||||||
| Full time | 69.1% | 62.2% | 54.6% | 52.2% | 58.9% | 42.1% |
| Part time | 10.8% | 15.3% | 18.0% | 18.7% | 12.7% | 21.4% |
| Unemployed | 7.1% | 7.5% | 8.3% | 5.2% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Other | 13.0% | 15.0% | 19.2% | 23.9% | 20.6% | 26.9% |
| Household Income | ||||||
| Below federal poverty | 15.7% | 17.0% | 21.3% | 20.3% | 22.1% | 29.7% |
| Up to 2× federal poverty | 20.3% | 16.5% | 23.1% | 21.1% | 21.7% | 25.7% |
| More than 2× federal poverty | 64.0% | 66.5% | 55.6% | 58.7% | 56.2% | 44.6% |
| Has health insurance | 83.2% | 85.4% | 79.2% | 88.4% | 85.0% | 85.8% |
| Overall self-reported health | ||||||
| Excellent | 24.7% | 26.7% | 17.1% | 25.7% | 17.3% | 16.9% |
| Very good | 39.0% | 37.3% | 40.1% | 38.5% | 40.0% | 35.3% |
| Good | 27.9% | 28.7% | 30.0% | 26.6% | 29.2% | 30.5% |
| Fair/poor | 8.4% | 7.2% | 12.9% | 9.2% | 13.5% | 17.4% |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married | 44.8% | 9.4% | 22.5% | 47.9% | 16.2% | 25.9% |
| Widowed | 1.1% | 2.2% | 3.2% | 1.3% | 2.1% | 2.1% |
| Divorced/separated | 9.2% | 5.3% | 5.7% | 12.3% | 10.7% | 11.9% |
| Never married | 45.0% | 83.1% | 68.6% | 38.5% | 71.0% | 60.2% |
| Household Size | ||||||
| 1 | 7.8% | 17.6% | 7.6% | 5.4% | 10.5% | 5.7% |
| 2 | 19.9% | 39.0% | 26.6% | 19.9% | 34.2% | 24.0% |
| 3 | 23.1% | 19.5% | 23.7% | 22.6% | 25.3% | 23.4% |
| 4 | 25.4% | 12.5% | 16.6% | 26.5% | 16.2% | 24.0% |
| 5 | 14.1% | 5.1% | 14.0% | 14.7% | 6.5% | 11.7% |
| 6+ | 9.6% | 6.2% | 11.4% | 10.9% | 7.3% | 11.1% |
| Respondent’s children <18 in household | ||||||
| 0 | 59.4% | 94.7% | 79.3% | 45.1% | 74.5% | 59.9% |
| 1 | 15.0% | 2.9% | 9.1% | 21.2% | 14.6% | 19.0% |
| 2 | 15.9% | 1.2% | 8.5% | 21.3% | 8.1% | 13.3% |
| 3+ | 9.7% | 1.2% | 3.1% | 12.5% | 2.8% | 7.9% |
Note: Demographic differences were compared across subgroups using Pearson chi-square tests based on weighted frequencies, corrected for survey design. When comparing across all six subgroups, chi-square tests were significant at the 0.05 level for all variables. Additionally, we conducted chi-square tests to compare sexual identity groups within gender. For men, differences were statistically significant for all variables except race/ethnicity and health insurance. For women, differences were statistically significant for all variables except urbanicity.