Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.
LGBT Health. 2023 Nov-Dec;10(8):639-643. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2022.0371. Epub 2023 Jun 19.
To refine estimates of the U.S. sexual minority population, we sought to characterize trends in the odds of respondents selecting "something else" or "don't know" when asked about sexual orientation on the National Health Interview Survey and to reclassify those respondents likely to be sexual minority adults. Logistic regression was conducted to test whether the odds of selecting "something else" or "don't know" increased over time. A previously established analytic approach was used to identify sexual minority adults among these respondents. Between 2013 and 2018, the percentage of respondents selecting "something else" or "don't know" increased 2.7-fold, from 0.54% to 1.44%. Reclassifying respondents with >50% predicted probabilities of being sexual minorities increased sexual minority population estimates by as much as 20.2%. A growing proportion of adults are selecting "something else" or "don't know." Properly classifying these responses yields more accurate sexual minority population estimates.
为了完善美国性少数群体人口的估计数，我们试图描述在全国健康访谈调查中询问受访者性取向时选择“其他”或“不知道”的几率的趋势，并对可能为性少数群体成年人的受访者进行重新分类。我们采用逻辑回归来检验选择“其他”或“不知道”的几率是否随时间增加。采用先前建立的分析方法来确定这些受访者中的性少数群体成年人。2013 年至 2018 年间，选择“其他”或“不知道”的受访者比例增加了两倍多，从 0.54%增加到 1.44%。对预测有 50%以上可能性为性少数群体的受访者进行重新分类，最多可将性少数群体人口估计数增加 20.2%。越来越多的成年人选择“其他”或“不知道”。正确分类这些回答可以得出更准确的性少数群体人口估计数。
