DATA TABLE REVIEW

TABLE 137. Percentage of high school students who had sexual intercourse with four or more persons during their life, 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 7.9 (6.6–9.5) 11.6 (10.0–13.4) 9.7 (8.4–11.3)

Race/Ethnicity

White§ 8.5 (6.7–10.7) 8.6 (7.1–10.5) 8.6 (7.1–10.3)

Black§ 7.0 (5.1–9.7) 23.2 (18.5–28.7) 14.8 (11.7–18.5)

Hispanic 6.8 (4.9–9.4) 12.0 (9.9–14.5) 9.4 (7.5–11.8)

Grade

9 1.8 (1.1–3.0) 6.0 (4.6–7.9) 4.0 (3.0–5.3)

10 5.1 (3.8–6.7) 9.7 (7.6–12.2) 7.3 (5.8–9.2)

11 9.1 (7.0–11.7) 12.2 (10.3–14.4) 10.6 (8.8–12.6)

12 16.5 (13.8–19.5) 19.5 (16.2–23.3) 18.0 (15.5–20.8)

Sexual identity

Heterosexual (straight) 6.5 (5.5–7.8) 11.5 (9.8–13.5) 9.1 (7.9–10.5)

Gay, lesbian, or bisexual 15.0 (11.2–19.9) 13.5 (8.8–20.3) 14.7 (11.2–18.9)

Not sure 8.0 (3.6–16.7) 10.7 (5.8–18.8) 9.9 (5.8–16.3)

Sex of sexual contacts

Opposite sex only 12.5 (10.7–14.6) 22.1 (19.3–25.2) 17.7 (15.5–20.1)

Same sex only or both sexes 30.1 (23.2–38.0) 24.2 (16.8–33.6) 28.6 (22.1–36.2)

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