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. 2019 Oct 29;54(Suppl 2):1442–1453. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13217

Table 1.

Weighted characteristics of a nationally representative sample of women in the United States, overall and by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation/gender identitya

  All (N = 1596) Race/Ethnicityb Sexual Orientation/Gender Identityc
White (N = 405) Native American (N = 153) Black (N = 428) Hispanic or Latina (N = 390) Asian (N = 178) Non‐LGBTQ (N = 1299) LGBTQ (N = 221)
Weighted percent of respondentsd
Race/Ethnicityb
White 65 67 64
Hispanic or Latina 15 13 17
Black 13 13 11
Asian 6 6 5
Native American 1 1 1
Other/Don't Know/Refused 1 0 1
Sexual orientation/Gender identityc
Non‐LGBTQ 89 92 93 92 76 90
LGBTQ 7 6 7 6 8 6
Refused 4 2 1 2 16 5
Age
18‐29 y 17 13 14 26 * 24 * 19 15 43 *
30‐49 y 31 29 39 31 41 * 37 32 31
50‐64 y 29 32 27 27 22 * 22 * 30 17 *
65 + y 22 26 20 16 * 13 * 22 23 9 *
Education
No college degreee 68 65 82 * 75 * 86 * 41 * 67 69
College degree or more 32 35 17 * 25 * 15 * 59 * 33 31
Household income
<$25,000 28 22 45 * 41 * 42 * 27 26 44 *
$25,000‐<$50,000 23 24 30 21 23 15 * 24 17
$50,000‐<$75,000 10 10 9 16 * 5 * 11 10 15
$75,000+ 29 35 10 * 13 * 13 * 36 31 18 *
Don't Know/Refused 10 9 5 10 17 * 11 9 6
Health insurance current status
Uninsured 10 9 13 8 18 * 10 9 11
Insured, Medicaid 9 6 21 * 20 * 15 * 5 9 18 *
Insured, non‐Medicaid 80 84 65 * 71 * 65 * 85 81 69 *
Don't Know/Refused 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 1
a

Unweighted Ns and weighted percentages of US women, ages 18+.

b

Whites, blacks, Hispanic/Latinas, Asians, and Native Americans. Also includes “Other Race/Ethnicity” not shown.

c

Non‐LGBTQ includes women who identify as heterosexual/straight and female gender, and did not identify as transgender or genderqueer/gender nonconforming. LGBTQ includes women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, queer, transgender, genderqueer, or gender nonconforming.

d

Percent of US women estimated with survey weights to adjust for unequal probability of sampling; responses may not add up to 100% due to rounding.

e

Includes those with some college experience (including business, technical, or vocational school after high school) but no college degree, as well as those with a high school degree or GED certificate or less.

*

For race/ethnicity bivariate comparison, significantly different from whites at P < .05 (in bold); for sexual orientation/gender identity bivariate comparison, significantly different from non‐LGBTQ women at P < .05 (in bold), based on t tests.