Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the analytic sample as a function of city.
| Total (N = 813) | Chicago (N = 283) | Atlanta (N = 206) | New York City (N = 324) | ||||||
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| Categorical Variables | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | χ2 (df) |
| Sexual orientation | |||||||||
| Gay | 720 | 88.6% | 255 | 90.1% | 172 | 83.5% | 293 | 90.4% | 7.01* (2) |
| Bisexual | 93 | 11.4% | 28 | 9.9% | 34 | 16.5% | 31 | 9.6% | |
| Race/ethnicity | 101.46*** (6) | ||||||||
| White | 249 | 30.6% | 107 | 37.8% | 66 | 32.0% | 76 | 23.5% | |
| Black | 228 | 28.0% | 63 | 22.3% | 100 | 48.5% | 65 | 20.1% | |
| Latino | 265 | 32.6% | 88 | 31.1% | 24 | 11.7% | 153 | 47.2% | |
| Other | 71 | 8.7% | 25 | 8.8% | 16 | 7.8% | 30 | 9.3% | |
| Education | 6.21* (2) | ||||||||
| Less than college degree | 339 | 41.7% | 109 | 38.5% | 101 | 49.0% | 129 | 39.8% | |
| College degree or more | 474 | 58.3% | 174 | 61.5% | 105 | 51.0% | 195 | 60.2% | |
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| Continuous Variables | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F (2, 809) |
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| Age | 24.27 | 2.88 | 24.45 | 2.77 | 24.24 | 2.89 | 24.13 | 2.97 | .98 |
Notes.
*
p < .05;
**
p < .001; Percentages may not add up to 100 because of rounding; one participant was missing data for age.