National Academy of Sciences | 150 Year Anniversary

Questions? Call 800-624-6242

About | Ordering | New

Menu menu

| Items in cart [0]

The National Academies Press

PAPERBACK
price:$24.95
add to cart

HARDBACK
price:$39.95
add to cart

Rights & Permissions

topleft topright

Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future (1999)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Citation Manager

. "1 Introduction." Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999.

Please select a format:

BibTeX EndNote RefMan
Page
28
bottomleft bottomright
  E-mail
Share on facebook Facebook
Share on delicious Delicious
Share on stumbleupon Stumble
Share on twitter Twitter
More Sharing ServicesMore

The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.

TABLE 1.2 Percentage of Women Reporting Various Dimensions of Same-Sex (SS) Sexuality by Selected Social and Demographic Variablesa

 

Any SS Partners Since Pubertyb

SS Activity Since Pubertyc

Desire SSd Partner

Identify as Homosexual or Bisexual

Total

3.8

4.3

7.5

1.4

Age

18-29

2.9

4.0

6.7

1.6

30-39

5.0

5.4

9.2

1.8

40-49

4.5

4.6

8.3

1.3

50-59

2.1

1.9

4.6

0.4

Marital status

Never married

5.6

5.9

10.4

3.7

Married

2.6

2.8

5.2

0.1

Divorced, widowed, separated

4.1

5.5

9.6

1.9

Education

Less than high school

3.3

1.8

3.3

0.4

High school graduate

1.8

2.3

5.3

0.4

Some college or vocational

3.9

5.1

7.3

1.2

College graduate

6.7

7.3

12.8

3.6

Religion

None

9.9

11.3

15.8

4.6

Type I Protestant

2.1

2.0

5.2

0.5

Type II Protestant

2.9

3.3

5.5

0.3

Catholic

3.4

4.2

8.4

1.7
Page
28