DATA TABLE REVIEW

TABLE 133. Percentage of high school students who ever had sexual intercourse, by sex, race/ethnicity, grade, sexual identity, and sex of sexual contacts* — United States, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2017

Category

Sex

Total Female Male

% CI† % CI % CI Total 37.7 (34.3–41.2) 41.4 (38.6–44.3) 39.5 (36.8–42.4)

Race/Ethnicity

White§ 38.7 (34.4–43.2) 38.5 (35.5–41.6) 38.6 (35.4–41.9)

Black§ 39.4 (34.6–44.4) 52.7 (46.8–58.5) 45.8 (41.3–50.3)

Hispanic 37.9 (33.0–43.0) 44.1 (39.4–48.9) 41.1 (36.5–45.9)

Grade

9 17.2 (14.2–20.7) 23.3 (19.9–27.2) 20.4 (17.8–23.2)

10 34.4 (30.2–38.8) 38.0 (34.1–41.9) 36.2 (32.9–39.5)

11 45.8 (41.4–50.3) 48.8 (45.1–52.5) 47.3 (44.1–50.6)

12 55.8 (51.0–60.5) 58.9 (54.5–63.2) 57.3 (53.1–61.4)

Sexual identity

Heterosexual (straight) 36.3 (32.6–40.1) 41.6 (38.6–44.7) 39.1 (36.1–42.2)

Gay, lesbian, or bisexual 50.1 (44.3–55.8) 42.5 (35.2–50.2) 48.4 (43.9–52.9)

Not sure 25.7 (19.0–33.8) 30.8 (21.7–41.7) 28.4 (22.2–35.5)

Sex of sexual contacts

Opposite sex only 76.6 (72.2–80.5) 79.6 (76.9–82.0) 78.2 (75.1–81.0)

Same sex only or both sexes 74.0 (67.7–79.4) 76.1 (69.5–81.6) 74.5 (69.9–78.7)

* Students who had no sexual contact are excluded from the analyses by sex of sexual contacts. † 95% confidence interval. § Non-Hispanic.