What I was trying to get at in my last post was that the number of people who say they aren’t getting any might be accurate to that sample.

People who have time to answer a government survey probably don’t have the most active social lives. I can’t see David Hasselfhoff spending an hour on the phone with a government employee answering personal questions. 😎

And I too am a bit suspect of anything that had 2/3 of participants reporting celibacy for the past year.

Yeah…. sure. Not.

Maybe one should filter on the age of respondent.

My 2 cent theory

Cool charts, I can see the general distribution pattern. I agree with your assesment. The data is interesting but how good is the data? I guess an invalid code is an error of some sort?

I hope a research team devotes some time and looks into this phenomenon. Is it real? Your data combined with the gay marriage study makes me GUESS that there is some sort of pattern.

http://members.vincennes.net/lyrecker/res16vsex-gss.html

There are various portals that I have found over the last year on the web.

Read about it here:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/about/gss/about.htm

The (or rather A) Codebook for the questions is here:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/

Subject headings here:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/rnd1998/merged/indx-sub/indexa.htm

The codes are nmeonic, so SEX is for gender of the ‘R’ (Respondant) while SEXSEX is who (males only, males&females, or females only) ‘R sexed up in the last 12 months and SEXSEX5 is who ‘R’ had sex with in the last 5 years. Thus RES16 is the RESidence of ‘R’ at age 16. I think that one is best.

The site that has the greatest power to analyze this data (that power is primarily that to analyze over time, I think!) is the ICPSR site at UMichigan:

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ticketlogin

However, access to that power is limited to registered users (I think anybody) but downloads of some data are limited to ICPSR member institutions. I haven’t “probed” into this Website any further than that first page above.

At the SDA Web Application of UC-Berkeley:

http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss04

One may online create charts and bar graphs on the entire data set (compare two variables filtered on another variable, etc..) – however there is no way to filter the data’s timeset, at least as far as I have learned the interface – it does state “cumulative dataset.”

Thus I did an analysis filtering for all men and charting RESidence @ age 16 vs who one had sex with over the last 5 years (SEXSEX5). You can see that analysis at:

http://members.vincennes.net/lyrecker/res16vsex-gss.html

There appear to be problems in the dataset which make it worrisome to me.

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GSS? From what I know of it…..

You lost me. What are you referencing? I’m pretty sure this isn’t the Danish study but I don’t know what it is.

AWESOME FIND!

Do you have a link? Do we need special software to filter through it?

Kinda sucks about the 1988 thing. Funny, the late 80s is when homosexuality began to be more socially accepted. I guess that is why they started asking.