Table 1.
Weighted Sample Characteristics of Women Surviving Cancer by Self-Reported Sexual Orientation: National Health Interview Survey, 2013–2018 (n = 11,066)
| Heterosexual |
Lesbian |
χ2 |
pa |
Bisexual |
χ2 |
pa |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unweighted n |
Unweighted n |
||||||
| Weighted % | Heterosexual vs. lesbian | Weighted % | Heterosexual vs. bisexual | ||||
| Total | 10,830 (97.9) | 141 (1.2) | 95 (0.9) | ||||
| Race/ethnicity | 17.8 | <0.001 | 2.5 | 0.473 | |||
| White, non-Hispanic | 9042 (84.6) | 117 (81.0) | 77 (83.2) | ||||
| Black, non-Hispanic | 766 (6.0) | 6 (1.7) | 9 (9.5) | ||||
| Hispanic | 372 (3.4) | 2 (2.3) | 3 (1.3) | ||||
| Multiple races | 650 (6.0) | 16 (15.0) | 6 (6.0) | ||||
| Age (years) | 23.3 | 0.002 | 283.7 | <0.001 | |||
| 18–24 | 61 (0.8) | 1 (1.9) | 4 (1.6) | ||||
| 25–34 | 352 (3.6) | 9 (6.3) | 31 (36.0) | ||||
| 35–44 | 650 (7.5) | 15 (12.1) | 21 (28.6) | ||||
| 45–54 | 1254 (14.2) | 32 (23.7) | 12 (10.7) | ||||
| 55–64 | 2403 (24.6) | 37 (26.3) | 10 (11.4) | ||||
| 65–74 | 2933 (25.0) | 38 (23.9) | 11 (5.9) | ||||
| 75–84 | 2154 (16.8) | 8 (5.5) | 4 (4.9) | ||||
| 85+ | 1023 (7.6) | 1 (0.3) | 2 (0.8) | ||||
| Educational level | 34.8 | <0.001 | 4.3 | 0.119 | |||
| High school/GED or less | 4166 (37.8) | 25 (15.7) | 32 (28.6) | ||||
| Some college/AA degree | 3532 (32.1) | 38 (27.5) | 39 (44.9) | ||||
| College graduate or more | 3095 (30.1) | 78 (56.8) | 24 (26.5) | ||||
| Marital status | 287.9 | <0.001 | 75.1 | <0.001 | |||
| Married | 4298 (54.1) | 38 (33.8) | 23 (31.8) | ||||
| Living with partner | 333 (3.8) | 32 (32.6) | 15 (19.1) | ||||
| Widowed | 2936 (19.7) | 3 (0.9) | 5 (5.0) | ||||
| Divorced/separated | 2340 (15.9) | 24 (14.0) | 28 (20.1) | ||||
| Never married | 876 (6.5) | 43 (18.8) | 24 (24.0) | ||||
| Insurance type | 5.3 | 0.072 | 17.6 | <0.001 | |||
| Private | 6436 (62.4) | 87 (61.7) | 47 (51.2) | ||||
| Public | 3955 (33.5) | 8 (29.4) | 10 (32.8) | ||||
| Uninsured | 427 (4.1) | 46 (8.9) | 38 (16.0) | ||||
| Employment status | 17.4 | <0.001 | — | — | |||
| Employed, for pay | 3352 (34.3) | 70 (50.9) | 50 (65.6) | ||||
| Employed, not for pay | 97 (1.0) | 2 (0.6) | 0 (0) | ||||
| Unemployed | 7377 (64.7) | 69 (48.5) | 45 (34.4) | ||||
| Cancer site | |||||||
| Breast | 3480 (31.7) | 50 (34.4) | 0.3 | 0.556 | 12 (10.4) | 13.6 | <0.001 |
| Cervical | 1043 (10.0) | 16 (10.7) | 0.04 | 0.830 | 31 (30.0) | 28.3 | <0.001 |
| Ovarian | 437 (4.2) | 7 (4.5) | 0.02 | 0.877 | 7 (4.5) | 0.02 | 0.895 |
| Uterine | 804 (7.2) | 12 (7.7) | 0.02 | 0.885 | 4 (6.6) | 0.02 | 0.888 |
| Head and neck | 160 (1.4) | 1 (0.7) | 0.5 | 0.467 | 0 (0) | — | — |
| Lung | 332 (2.8) | 3 (2.0) | 0.3 | 0.558 | 1 (0.5) | 0.4 | 0.512 |
| Colon | 557 (4.8) | 1 (2.7) | 0.4 | 0.541 | 3 (3.5) | 0.2 | 0.643 |
| Other | 4450 (42.0) | 56 (41.1) | 0.03 | 0.853 | 38 (44.8) | 0.2 | 0.656 |
Significant (p ≤ 0.05) results are bolded. Heterosexual women served as the reference group in all analyses. Column percentages might not always add up to 100% due to rounding.
a
p Value for Rao-Scott Chi-square test for the difference.
AA, associate in arts; GED, general educational development.