Table 2.

Demographic Characteristics of 2015–2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health Participants 18–49 Years by Gender and Sexual Identity (N = 67,354)

	Men			Women
	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.