Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis

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