Table 2.
Men | Women | ||||||
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Heterosexual, n = 29,798, % | Gay, n = 776, % | Bisexual, n = 675, % | Heterosexual, n = 32,688, % | Lesbian/gay, n = 743, % | Bisexual, n = 2674, % | Chi-square test | |
Age | |||||||
18–25 years | 26.0 | 30.1 | 42.9 | 24.2 | 33.1 | 47.3 | <0.001 |
26–34 years | 28.7 | 34.7 | 27.5 | 28.4 | 32.6 | 31.4 | |
35–49 years | 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 | <0.001 |
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 | |||||||
Less than high school | 14.1 | 7.5 | 15.2 | 10.2 | 9.4 | 14.1 | <0.001 |
High school | 26.9 | 20.1 | 28.2 | 20.3 | 24.9 | 27.6 | |
Some college/2-year college degree | 31.5 | 31.9 | 33.8 | 36.3 | 37.0 | 39.5 | |
Four-year 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 | <0.001 |
Small metro | 29.4 | 24.3 | 27.4 | 29.3 | 31.3 | 28.3 | |
Nonmetro | 14.0 | 8.0 | 11.7 | 13.4 | 13.1 | 12.7 | |
Marital status | |||||||
Married | 43.7 | 8.6 | 22.9 | 47.6 | 18.8 | 23.9 | <0.001 |
Widowed | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.4 | |
Divorced/separated | 9.1 | 4.3 | 5.4 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 13.1 | |
Never married | 46.4 | 86.0 | 69.9 | 39.4 | 71.1 | 61.6 | |
Living with children | |||||||
No | 59.4 | 94.7 | 79.3 | 45.1 | 74.5 | 59.9 | <0.001 |
Yes | 40.6 | 5.3 | 20.7 | 54.9 | 25.5 | 40.1 | |
Employment status | |||||||
Employed full time | 69.1 | 62.2 | 54.6 | 52.2 | 58.9 | 42.1 | <0.001 |
Employed 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 |
Demographic differences were compared across subgroups using Pearson chi-square tests based on weighted proportions, corrected for survey design.