Summary
From their website, "Sexual behavior underlies many important health issues such as non-marital fertility among teens and sexually transmitted disease. Social norms structure both sexual behavior itself and responses to related outcomes such as unwanted pregnancies, infertility or sexual dysfunction, but too little is known about how sexual behavior is socially organized among adults. The purpose of this research project is to advance the social scientific understanding of adult sexual behavior in the United States."

Author or Organization
Edward O. Laumann, The Population Research Center At NORC & The University of Chicago.

Geographical Area Covered and Level of Analysis
Cook County

Year(s)
1995, 1997

Sample Size, Design, and Methodology
There are 2,114 respondents from the Chicago metropolitan area (N=890), and an oversampling of four community areas within the city (N=1224). Copies of the questionaire, frequency tables, and data files are available for download in SAS, SPSS, and STATA formats.

Variables Covered
From their website, "There are 17 sections: demographic data; sexual partners; detailed information on two most recent partners; partners in last 12 months; use of birth control methods; respondent's social networks; respondents' exposure to sexual contact as a child; respondent's exposure to forced sexual contact; first sexual intercourse; lifetime sexual history; neighborhood characteristics; general and sexual health; attitudes toward sexuality and sex roles; domestic violence; sexual orientation; general sexuality; and respondent's evaluation of the survey itself; and respondent's evaluation of interviewer. The last five sections were self-administered."

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External Links
Chicago Health and Social Life Survey homepage