By Column: Everything | Demographics | Sexual History | Attitudes | Relationships | Dating | Hookups
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Variable | Question |
exclusivity
exclusivity.r exclusivity.r.o |
If I met the right person now, I'd like to be in an exclusive relationship |
any.romances.of.at.least.six.months
num.romances |
Since you started college have you been in a romantic relationship that has lasted longer than six months? If so, how many? (I recoded num.romances, which in the questionnaire can range from [1, 5], to [0, 5], using the answer to the former question.) |
rape
rape..location.before.incident rape..when.did.this.happen |
‘Since you started college, have you had sexual intercourse that was physically forced on you?’ or, at the event-level, ‘Did you have sexual intercourse that was physically forced on you?’ At the student-level, as it pertains to this event, Where had the two of you been before the incident? (the most recent one if more than one), and When did this happen? I was a... |
attempted.rape
attempted.rape..location.before.incident attempted.rape..when.did.this.happen |
‘Since you started college, has someone tried to physically force you to have sexual intercourse, but you got out of the situation without having intercourse?’ or, at the event-level, ‘Did someone try to physically force you to have sexual intercourse, but you got out of the situation without having intercourse?’ At the student-level, as it pertains to this event, Where had the two of you been before the incident? (the most recent one if more than one), and When did this happen? I was a... |
incapacitated
incapacitated..location.before.incident incapacitated..when.did.this.happen |
‘Since you started college, has someone had sexual intercourse with you that you did not want when you were drunk, passed out, asleep, drugged, or otherwise incapacitated?’ or, in your most recent date/hookup/relationship, ‘Did someone have sexual intercourse with you that you did not want when you were drunk, passed out, asleep, drugged, or otherwise incapacitated?’ At the student-level, as it pertains to this event, Where had the two of you been before the incident? (the most recent one if more than one), and When did this happen? I was a... |
pressured
pressured..location.before.incident pressured..when.did.this.happen |
‘Since you started college, have you had sexual intercourse that you did not want because someone verbally pressured you?’ or, during your most recent date/hookup/relationship, ‘Did you have sexual intercourse that you did not want because someone verbally pressured you?’ At the student-level, as it pertains to this event, Where had the two of you been before the incident? (the most recent one if more than one), and When did this happen? I was a... |
finished.off.partner | For individual events, this quesion asks, 'Did you perform oral sex or hand stimulation of your partner because you did not want to have intercourse, but felt you should give them an orgasm?' whereas, at the student-level, this question asks, 'Since you started college, have you ever performed oral sex or hand stimulation of a partner to orgasm mainly because you didn't want to have intercourse, but felt like you needed to give them an orgasm one way or another?' |
partner.attends.same.college | Was (or is) your {date/significant other/the person you hooked up with} a student at the same college as you? |
partner.attends.same.college_r | This recodeds partner.attends.same.college, which, for dates and hookups, could be 'Don't know', and sets such cases to missing. I'm not quite sure this is the way to go about it, but it's necessary to match the regressions from the ASR2012 paper. |
partner.gender | What is your partner's gender? |
straight.event | This variable indicates whether a date/hookup/relationship record is heterosexual. |
partner.white
partner.black partner.chinese partner.japanese partner.korean partner.filipino partner.vietnamese partner.south.asian partner.other.asian partner.mexican partner.puerto.rican partner.other.hispanic partner.native.american partner.other.race.but.not.native.american partner.race.specify partner.other.race partner.asian partner.hispanic |
Which of these racial or ethnic groups describes your partner? (check all that apply) -- Note that other.race, asian, and hispanic are collapsed versions of the preceding more detailed categories. |
partner.grade | For dates and hookups: If {your date/the person you hooked up with} was a student at your college, what was his/her year? For relationships: What was your significant other's college year during most of the relationship? |
first.met.at
first.met.at.specify |
Where did you first meet? |
anything.sexual | Did anything sexual occur? (kissing, petting, oral sex, intercourse, ___) |
anal.sex.r | For straight events, this variable indicates whether the male inserted his penis into the female's rear. For homosexual events, this indicates whether at least one partner penetrated the other partner's rear. |
kissed.or.made.out
you.touched.partners.breast.or.bottom partner.touched.your.breast.or.bottom you.stimulated.partners.genitals partner.stimulated.your.genitals you.performed.oral.sex partner.performed.oral.sex had.vaginal.intercourse you.penetrated.partners.bottom partner.penetrated.your.bottom you.stimulated.your.genitals partner.stimulated.own.genitals you.had.an.orgasm partner.had.an.orgasm kissed.or.made.out.in.public kissed.or.made.out.in.private |
Which sexual behaviors did you engage in? (Check all that apply.). -- These are asked with respect to the partner in dating, hookups, and relationships, but by partner's gender, if one *ever* engaged in these behaviors, in sexual history. As such, this gender-nonspecific series is constructed for sexual histories, whereas for the occurrences, these reflect the questionnaire. Note also that for occurrences, respondents were asked whether they kissed or made out, wherein sexual histories this was split into two questions, about public/private kissing, and as such, these two variables are only available in sexual histories (which a correspond privacy-nonspecific version constructed to match those in the per-occurrence data). Finally, under Relationships, there's a separate heading covering the sexual activities which ever occurred during the respondent's most recent relationship. |
with.alt.sex.partner..kissed.or.made.out
with.alt.sex.partner..you.touched.partners.breast.or.bottom with.alt.sex.partner..partner.touched.your.breast.or.bottom with.alt.sex.partner..you.stimulated.partners.genitals with.alt.sex.partner..partner.stimulated.your.genitals with.alt.sex.partner..you.performed.oral.sex with.alt.sex.partner..partner.performed.oral.sex with.alt.sex.partner..had.vaginal.intercourse with.alt.sex.partner..you.penetrated.partners.bottom with.alt.sex.partner..partner.penetrated.your.bottom with.alt.sex.partner..you.stimulated.your.genitals with.alt.sex.partner..partner.stimulated.own.genitals with.alt.sex.partner..you.had.an.orgasm with.alt.sex.partner..partner.had.an.orgasm with.same.sex.partner..kissed.or.made.out with.same.sex.partner..you.touched.partners.breast.or.bottom with.same.sex.partner..partner.touched.your.breast.or.bottom with.same.sex.partner..you.stimulated.partners.genitals with.same.sex.partner..partner.stimulated.your.genitals with.same.sex.partner..you.performed.oral.sex with.same.sex.partner..partner.performed.oral.sex with.same.sex.partner..had.vaginal.intercourse with.same.sex.partner..you.penetrated.partners.bottom with.same.sex.partner..partner.penetrated.your.bottom with.same.sex.partner..you.stimulated.your.genitals with.same.sex.partner..partner.stimulated.own.genitals with.same.sex.partner..you.had.an.orgasm with.same.sex.partner..partner.had.an.orgasm |
In the student-level file, the gendered sexual behavior indicators are constructed from the prompts about behaviors the respondent *ever* did with a male/female partner, whereas in the event-level file, these are constructed from the respondent gender, partner gender, and gender-neutral sexual behavior prompts. |
condom | Did you use a condom? |
condom.r | This indicates whether, in a heteronormative event, the respondent had intercourse but did not use a condom, had intercourse and used a condom, or did not have intercourse. |
condom.s | This indicates condom use, conditional on reporting vaginal intercourse. It it like condom, except that it is set to missing if vaginal intercourse was not reported. |
condom_r | This is the same as condom.r, but it is stored as a numeric variable, where -1 indicates that the respondent did not have sex. In selection equations on sex, the first stage should drop all the -1's, converting this into a dichotomous variable, where 1 indicates condom use. |
enjoyed.sexual.activity | How much did you enjoy whatever happened physically (most recent event)? |
enjoyed.sexual.activity.very.much | This dichotomizes 'How much did you enjoy whatever happened physically?'. It's true only if the respondent chooses 'I enjoyed the sexual activity very much'. |
enjoyed.overall | How much did you enjoy {your date/the hookup/the most recent sexual event within your relationship} overall? |
num.drinks
beer wine.glasses mixed.drinks malts |
How much alcohol did you drink before or during the {date/hookup/occasion}? -- The num.drinks variable sums up the beer, wine, mixed, and malts variables. |
no.drugs
marijuana meth cocaine ecstasy heroin shrooms other.drugs other.drugs.specify |
What illegal drugs did you use before or during the {date/hookup/occasion}? -- used.drugs just inverts no.drugs |
used.drugs | This variable uses the drugs indicators. It's true if no.drugs==0, and it also checks the various other indicators, in case any of those were checked but no.drugs left at 0. |
occurred | This variable indicates whether the respondent would have been prompted for the {date/hookup/relationship} questions. |
with.this.significant.other.ever..kissed.or.made.out
with.this.significant.other.ever..you.touched.partners.breast.or.bottom with.this.significant.other.ever..partner.touched.your.breast.or.bottom with.this.significant.other.ever..you.stimulated.partners.genitals with.this.significant.other.ever..partner.stimulated.your.genitals with.this.significant.other.ever..you.performed.oral.sex with.this.significant.other.ever..partner.performed.oral.sex with.this.significant.other.ever..had.vaginal.intercourse with.this.significant.other.ever..you.penetrated.partners.bottom with.this.significant.other.ever..partner.penetrated.your.bottom with.this.significant.other.ever..you.stimulated.your.genitals with.this.significant.other.ever..partner.stimulated.own.genitals with.this.significant.other.ever..you.had.an.orgasm with.this.significant.other.ever..partner.had.an.orgasm with.this.significant.other.ever..oral.sex.occurred with.this.significant.other.ever..anal.sex.occurred |
Which sexual activities did you engage in at any time during your relationship? |
with.this.significant.other..generally.enjoyed.sexual.activity | How much did you generally enjoy the sexual activity? |
with.this.significant.other..generally.enjoyed.the.relationship | How much did you enjoy the relationship overall? |
date.began
date.ended |
When did your most recent relationship begin and end? |
romance.began.before.college
romance.began.after.college |
Did this relationship begin before or after college? |
still.together
broken.up |
Are you still together? |
who.wanted.to.break.up | In some breakups, one person wanted the relationship to end more than the other. How was it with this break up? |
you.might.like.to.marry | How likely do you think it is that you will want to marry this person in the future? |
you.might.like.to.marry_r | This recodes 'How likely do you think it is that you will want to marry this person in the future?'. The reference category is changed, to reflect dissolved partnerships (and this is set to missing if still.together is missing). The categories 'Not likely at all' and 'Somewhat unlikely' are collapsed together, into 'Not likely'. The other two are left as they were. |
time.knew.partner.before.coupling | How long did you know your significant other before you became a couple? |
time.knew.partner.before.coupling_r | This variable recodes 'How long did you know your significant other before you became a couple?', collapsing 'A year or longer' and '6-12 months' into ' > 6 months'. |
dates.before.exclusivity | How many times did you and your significant other go out on a date before you became an exclusive couple? |
hookups.before.coupling | How many times did you and your significant other hook up before you became a couple? |
clarity
clarity.specify |
How did it become clear that this person was your boyfriend or girlfriend? |
cohabit | Have you ever lived together with this significant other? |
more.than.just.kissed | Have you and your significant other ever done anything sexual, beyond kissing? |
condom.at.first.time | Did you use a condom the first time you had intercourse with this significant other? |
which.happened.first | Which did you do first with this significant other, hook up or go on a date? |