Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of abuse/assault and early life experience samples among unique Twitter users.

Characteristic		US census, %a	Twitter overall, %b	Abuse/assault sample (N=1168), %b,c	Early experience sample (N=612), %b,c
Sex
	Male	49.2	45.8	10.6	9.2
	Female	50.8	54.2	89.4	90.8
Age (years)
	≤19	25.4	25.02	15.2	13.1
	20-24	6.70	45.33	25.5	24.1
	25-29	7.10	16.10	20	20
	30-34	6.70	7.16	17.8	22
	35-39	6.60	2.40	8.1	7.3
	40-49	12.5	3.25	9.7	9
	50-59	13.3	0.49	2.6	3.7
	≥60	21.7	0.25	1	0.8
Race/ethnicity
	White/Caucasian	60.7	78.7	90.7	89.8
	Hispanic	18.1	7.6	6.2	6.1
	African American	13.4	13.1	2.6	3.3
	Asian	5.8	0.6	0.4	0.8
	Native American/Pacific Islander	1.5	—d	—	—

^aAge distribution based on 2017 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates (July 1, 2017).

^bProportions provided by Demographics Pro on October 18, 2018.

^cBased on our classification in the analytical sample of geotagged novel English language tweets in the United States.

^dNot available.