Table 2.
Proportion of respondents reporting having had sex with someone met on a website or a smartphone app among people who searched for partners on websites and smartphone apps.
| Characteristics | %a (95% CI) | P value | |
| All participantsb | 36.07 (31.64-40.75) | N/Ac | |
| Sex | |||
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Men | 36.28 (30.90-42.02) | .90 |
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Women | 35.68 (28.20-43.93) | N/A |
| Sexual identity | |||
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Heterosexual | 30.89 (26.19-36.03) | <.001 |
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Homosexual or lesbian or bisexual | 62.41 (53.24-70.75) | N/A |
| STId testing in the last year | |||
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No test | 35.89 (28.86-43.59) | <.001 |
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STI test | 53.77 (43.94-63.31) | N/A |
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STI diagnosis | 64.94 (46.76-79.61) | N/A |
| Condom use with most recent partner | |||
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Used condoms | 48.43 (39.7 57.2) | <.001 |
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Did not use | 42.85 (33.5-52.8) | N/A |
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Missing or don’t know or refused | 23.26 (18.0-29.5) | N/A |
| Number of sexual partners in the last year | |||
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1 | 15.36 (10.50-21.94) | <.001 |
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2-3 | 48.82 (41.66-56.02) | N/A |
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>3 | 72.44 (63.95-79.57) | N/A |
aAll data have been weighted to match the Australian population.
bn=1048 (720) weighted (unweighted) denominators.
cN/A: not applicable.
dSTI: sexually transmissible infection.