partners
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 1541. How many sex partners have you had in the last 12 months?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | 1 or more, (unspecified) | 1 partner | 11-20 partners | 2 partners | 21-100 partners | 3 partners | 4 partners | 5-10 partners | more than 100 partners | no partners | no answer | don't know | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 91 | 9 | 875 | 5 | 78 | 5 | 51 | 26 | 22 | 1 | 318 | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 136 | 6 | 906 | 2 | 89 | 2 | 40 | 20 | 23 | - | 308 | 5 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 199 | 15 | 765 | 1 | 66 | 2 | 32 | 22 | 25 | 1 | 230 | 14 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 872 | - | 418 | 2 | 39 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 146 | 8 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 114 | - | 983 | 4 | 87 | 1 | 33 | 25 | 20 | - | 313 | 26 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 201 | 3 | 1784 | 6 | 191 | 2 | 72 | 35 | 35 | - | 608 | 55 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 258 | 25 | 1724 | 6 | 190 | 7 | 91 | 45 | 31 | - | 498 | 27 | 2 | 2904 |
| 1998 | 383 | 13 | 1585 | 8 | 163 | 4 | 57 | 39 | 34 | 1 | 512 | 32 | 1 | 2832 |
| 2000 | 417 | 2 | 1502 | 9 | 151 | - | 79 | 42 | 36 | - | 521 | 58 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 489 | 5 | 1397 | 10 | 159 | 2 | 83 | 39 | 34 | 2 | 511 | 30 | 4 | 2765 |
| 2004 | 584 | 8 | 1462 | 12 | 142 | 4 | 65 | 45 | 34 | 1 | 425 | 26 | 4 | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2096 | 6 | 1485 | 17 | 152 | 3 | 66 | 37 | 38 | - | 596 | 13 | 1 | 4510 |
| 2008 | 240 | 10 | 1092 | 11 | 120 | 3 | 55 | 25 | 33 | 2 | 415 | 13 | 4 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 202 | 15 | 1129 | 2 | 124 | 1 | 63 | 39 | 25 | 2 | 427 | 14 | 1 | 2044 |
| 2012 | 238 | 18 | 1068 | 5 | 109 | 4 | 57 | 34 | 23 | - | 405 | 13 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 188 | 15 | 1490 | 7 | 130 | 1 | 68 | 32 | 31 | - | 537 | 37 | 2 | 2538 |
| 2016 | 1096 | 9 | 1085 | 11 | 124 | 1 | 50 | 34 | 38 | - | 409 | 9 | 1 | 2867 |
| 2018 | 942 | 4 | 868 | 1 | 79 | 1 | 40 | 21 | 23 | - | 358 | 10 | 1 | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1699 | 6 | 1504 | 4 | 83 | 2 | 44 | 27 | 40 | 4 | 599 | 11 | 9 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1898 | - | 937 | 5 | 70 | 1 | 39 | 32 | 22 | 3 | 468 | 44 | 25 | 3544 |
| Total | 34218 | 169 | 24059 | 128 | 2346 | 47 | 1100 | 627 | 574 | 18 | 8604 | 445 | 55 | 72390 |
0 no partners
1 1 partner
2 2 partners
3 3 partners
4 4 partners
5 5-10 partners
6 11-20 partners
7 21-100 partners
8 more than 100 partners
9 1 or more, (unspecified)
95 several
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook