How many sex partner's r had in last year

partners_8822

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question How many sex partners have you had in the last 12 months? As of 2024, PARTNERS has been recoded to only account for 0 to 11+ partners and has been slightly adjusted to help protect confidentiality. Please see the 2024 codebook for more information.The original PARTNERS containing data from 1988 to 2022 has been renamed PARTNERS_8822.

Values

• [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(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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014
B/C/-	2016, 2018, 2021, 2022

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for partners_8822.

Counts by year:

year	not available in this year	no partners	1 partner	2 partners	3 partners	4 partners	5-10 partners	11-20 partners	21-100 partners	more than 100 partners	1 or more (unspecified)	iap	no answer	don't know	Total
1988	-	318	875	78	51	26	22	5	5	1	9	91	-	-	1481
1989	-	308	906	89	40	20	23	2	2	-	6	136	5	-	1537
1990	-	230	765	66	32	22	25	1	2	1	15	199	14	-	1372
1991	-	146	418	39	15	8	7	2	1	1	-	872	8	-	1517
1993	-	313	983	87	33	25	20	4	1	-	-	114	26	-	1606
1994	-	608	1784	191	72	35	35	6	2	-	3	201	55	-	2992
1996	-	498	1724	190	91	45	31	6	7	-	25	258	27	2	2904
1998	-	512	1585	163	57	39	34	8	4	1	13	383	32	1	2832
2000	-	521	1502	151	79	42	36	9	-	-	2	417	58	-	2817
2002	-	511	1397	159	83	39	34	10	2	2	5	489	30	4	2765
2004	-	425	1462	142	65	45	34	12	4	1	8	584	26	4	2812
2006	-	596	1485	152	66	37	38	17	3	-	6	2096	13	1	4510
2008	-	415	1092	120	55	25	33	11	3	2	10	240	13	4	2023
2010	-	427	1129	124	63	39	25	2	1	2	15	202	14	1	2044
2012	-	405	1068	109	57	34	23	5	4	-	18	238	13	-	1974
2014	-	537	1490	130	68	32	31	7	1	-	15	188	37	2	2538
2016	-	409	1085	124	50	34	38	11	1	-	9	1096	9	1	2867
2018	-	358	868	79	40	21	23	1	1	-	4	942	10	1	2348
2021	-	599	1504	83	44	27	40	4	2	4	6	1699	11	9	4032
2022	-	468	937	70	39	32	22	5	1	3	16	1927	10	14	3544
Total	0	8604	24059	2346	1100	627	574	128	47	18	185	12372	411	44	50515

See also

Other High Risk Behaviors: hivtest1_0622, hivtest2_0622