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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles II, 2000-2001

Variable Details

Variableexpscale
Labelheterosexual/homosexual sexual experience
Question text As before, please read this card carefully and be as honest as you can be in your answer. When you've finished reading, tell me which letter represents your answer. Sexual experience is any kind of contact with another person that you felt was sexual (it could be just kissing or touching, or intercourse or any other form of sex). I have had some sexual experience... Only with (females/males) (or a (female/male)), never with a (male/female), More often with (females/males), and at least once with a (male/female), About equally often with (females/males) and with (males/females), More often with (males/females), and at least once with a (female/male), Only with (males/females) (or a (male/female)), never with a (female/male), I have never had any sexual experience with anyone at all.
Responses
1 opposite sex only 10936
2 more often opposite sex, and at least once same sex 731
3 about equally often to opposite sex and same sex 46
4 more often same sex, and at least once opposite sex 100
5 same sex only 51
6 never had sexual experience with anyone at all 205
7 refused 39
9 not answered 2
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationNational Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles II, 2000-2001
Interviewer InstructionsCARD M WAIT TILL RESPONDENT HAS READ CARD, THEN CODE ANSWER. CARD SAYS (DO NOT READ OUT):
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Men and women aged 16-44 living in private households in Great Britain in 2000-2001.
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. Second wave: the first survey was conducted in 1990-1991.
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