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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Characteristics of the sample by gender and place of birth

From: Sexual behavioural differences and risk-taking differences among born-abroad and native university students in Italy

Characteristics

Born in Italy

Born abroad

Male

Female

Male

Female

Total SELFY sample size

3874

3466

171

234

Median age at interview

20.7

20.5

21.1

21.2

Interquartile range (p75-p25)

1.5

1.3

1.8

2.2

Median age at first sexa

17.9

18.0

17.8

18.8

Interquartile range (p75-p25)

3.6

4.0

3.4

4.5

% that had first sexual intercourse

79.6

76.8

84.3

77.5

Among which:

    

 % that had extra-couple sexual intercourse

23.6

13.3

33.5

18.7

 % that had occasional sexual intercourse

52.8

28.8

69.5

23.2

 % that had numerous sexual partnersb

43.6

34.8

50.1

36.7

  1. aKM survivor estimates
  2. bMore than two partners (higher than the mean number of the distribution)
  3. Source: our elaborations on SELFY data