Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Incarcerated Adolescents, N = 46.

Variable	n
Age, mean (SD)	16.5 (1.05)
Gendera
Male	39
Female	5
Other	1
Raceb
White	7
Black	23
Asian and Pacific Islander	2
American Indian or Alaska Native	5
Biracial	8
Ethnicityc	12
Hispanic
Non-Hispanic	31
HPV and vaccine experience
Has a doctor or nurse ever told you that you have HPV?
Yes	0
No	43
Do not know	3
Have you ever gotten the HPV vaccine?
Yesd	15
No	23
Do not know	8
Health department HPV vaccine verification
No doses	13
One or more doses	32
Not in immunization record system	1

Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; HPV, human papillomavirus.

^aOne missing value for gender.

^bOne missing value for race.

^cThree missing values for ethnicity.

^dOut of the 15 who said they had received the vaccine, 4 reported that they thought they had received it, but could not recall details about it or were not exactly sure if what they had received was HPV vaccine.