Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis
Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis
Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis
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constrained by time, ended with 201 respondents. While more would have (always) been<br />
welcomed, this amount is sufficient for analysis.<br />
Results<br />
Demographics<br />
Sample demographics can be found in Table 1. There were 201 completed<br />
surveys. The majority of respondents self identified as gay men (73 %) <strong>and</strong> the second<br />
largest group consists of those reporting themselves as bisexual (16 %).<br />
Straight/heterosexual men <strong>and</strong> transgender persons each make up just 4 % of the sample.<br />
Women <strong>and</strong> “other” identified men each make up about 2 % of the sample. The age of<br />
the respondents ranges from 16 to 69 with an average age of 36.1. Seventy-five percent<br />
of the respondents are white, 9 percent are “other,” which combines Native American,<br />
Asian, <strong>and</strong> Pacific Isl<strong>and</strong>er; the “multiracial” category includes those who marked more<br />
than one race. Thirty-eight percent of the sample is of Hispanic ethnicity. Ten percent of<br />
the sample has not completed a high school education, but this reflects, to some extent,<br />
the several respondents who are under age 19—as thirty percent of the sample reports<br />
currently being a student. Twenty-eight percent have either a GED or a high school<br />
diploma, forty-seven percent have attended some college <strong>and</strong> 14 percent have at least a<br />
college degree. Average income for the sample is just over 25 thous<strong>and</strong>. Income was<br />
asked in a series of brackets <strong>and</strong> for this report was recoded using midpoints, thus the<br />
range is 5,000 to over 75,000.<br />
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