Table 1.
The Impact of Including/Excluding Different Types of Partners, Capping, and Adjusting for Attitudes on the Total Number of Opposite-Sex Partners Reported by Men and Women: Last Year, Past Five Years, and Lifetime
| Men |
Women |
Difference Between Means | 95% Confidence Interval | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | M (SD) | |||
| Last year | ||||
| Overall | 1.27 (1.99) | 1.04 (2.83) | 0.23 | (0.14 to 0.32) |
| After including oral-only partners | 1.36 (2.20) | 1.07 (2.93) | 0.28 | (0.18 to 0.38) |
| Unweighted, weighted denominator | 6,048, 7,181 | 8,540, 7,330 | ||
| Last five years | ||||
| Overall | 2.66 (5.64) | 1.84 (8.12) | 0.82 | (0.55 to 1.09) |
| After excluding new partners from outside of the U.K. but while in U.K. | 2.60 (5.53) | 1.81 (7.82) | 0.78 | (0.53 to 1.04) |
| After excluding new partners while outside of the U.K. | 2.45 (5.36) | 1.76 (7.87) | 0.69 | (0.43 to 0.95) |
| After excluding both | 2.43 (5.31) | 1.76 (7.58) | 0.67 | (0.43 to 0.92) |
| Unweighted, weighted denominator | 6,067, 7206 | 8,560, 7353 | ||
| Lifetime | ||||
| Overall | 14.14 (63.66) | 7.12 (34.62) | 7.02 | (4.97 to 9.08) |
| After 99th percentile capping | 11.74 (16.25) | 6.28 (8.62) | 5.47 | (4.92 to 6.01) |
| After 99th percentile capping and excluding paid-for partners | 11.40 (15.92) | 6.28 (8.62) | 5.11 | (4.61 to 5.72) |
| After 99th percentile capping and adjusting for counting strategy | 3.24 | (2.81 to 3.68) | ||
| After 99th percentile capping and adjusting for sexual attitudes | 4.31 | (3.80 to 4.82) | ||
| After 99th percentile capping and adjusting for counting strategy and sexual attitudes | 2.63 | (2.22 to 3.04) | ||
| Unweighted, weighted denominator | 6,028, 7,170 | 8,530, 7,323 | ||
*p value for difference in means is < 0.001 for each row.