Catching up! The sexual behaviour and opinions of Italian students (2000–2017)

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 5 Opinions, odds ratio and confidence interval (p=0.05) the sexual behaviour of all the students surveyed (2000–2017)

	For a boy, I agree with…				For a girl, I agree with…
	%	OR	Min	Max	%	OR	Min	Max
Very early sexual intercourse
M 2000	50.2	1.000			28.8	1.000
M 2017	52.2	0.916	0.802	1.045	27.4	0.790	0.682	0.916
W 2000	13.7	0.180^*	0.153	0.213	8.5	0.292^*	0.240	0.356
W 2017	21.3	0.242^*	0.209	0.282	13.6	0.376^*	0.317	0.447
A betrayal during a stable couple’s relationship
M 2000	26.0	1.000			13.0	1.000
M 2017	17.9	0.497	0.423	0.585	9.9	0.572	0.461	0.709
W 2000	2.4	0.071^*	0.052	0.098	4.1	0.357^*	0.269	0.474
W 2017	2.9	0.070^*	0.053	0.092	3.8	0.224^*	0.168	0.299
Casual sex for a single
M 2000	67.4	1.000			46.1	1.000
M 2017	71.5	1.006	0.872	1.161	53.3	0.971	0.848	1.111
W 2000	21.8	0.146^*	0.124	0.171	16.1	0.261^*	0.222	0.308
W 2017	34.3	0.201^*	0.173	0.233	30.5	0.422^*	0.364	0.488
Remaining a virgin until marriage
M 2000	26.5	1.000			36.0	1.000
M 2017	21.7	0.814	0.696	0.951	25.7	0.703	0.608	0.812
W 2000	37.0	2.182^*	1.869	2.547	52.9	1.603^*	1.383	1.857
W 2017	35.4	1.555^*	1.334	1.812	38.5	1.101^*	0.953	1.273
Homosexual intercourse
M 2000	19.0	1.000			31.5	1.000
M 2017	42.4	2.792	2.378	3.279	59.5	2.735	2.376	3.148
W 2000	28.1	2.440^*	2.048	2.908	27.0	1.061	0.907	1.241
W 2017	69.5	10.475^*	8.843	12.407	66.7	4.243^*	3.657	4.924

Note: Percentages of the sum of ‘agree’ and ‘strongly agree’ (in italics) and the odds ratios for the variable gender × time (Men2000 = 1): ten logistic models fitted on the merged 2000 and 2017 datasets. The list of the control covariates and their distributions is reported in the Appendix
Bold indicates the odds ratios for 2017 are significantly different from the odds ratios for 2000 for both men and women
For both years the asterisk means that the odd ratio for women is significantly different from that for men