The Timing of Sexual Debut Among Chinese Youth

• DOI: 10.1363/3819612
• Publication Date: 2013-01-14T14:58:19Z
• Authors: Wei Guo; Zheng Wu; Yue Qiu; Gong Chen; Xiaoying Zheng
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Rural Population; China; Urban Population; Sexual Behavior; Coitus; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; Age Distribution; Sexual Partners; 0302 clinical medicine; Socioeconomic Factors; 5. Gender equality; Social Conformity; 11. Sustainability; Humans; Female; Life Tables; Sex Distribution; Attitude to Health; Proportional Hazards Models; Sexual Abstinence

The age at sexual debut is declining in China, but little known about the relationship between social and demographic characteristics of Chinese youth timing debut.Data were drawn from 2009 National Youth Reproductive Health Survey, which collected background information 22,300 unmarried aged 15-24. Life table analysis was used to estimate gender-specific distributions by age, according urban or rural residence region. Cox proportional hazard regression models then employed identify associated with among males females.The mean 22.8 years (22.5 for men 23.1 women). Sexual before 18 rare both genders, ages 21-24 appear be normative range debut. found that earlier than females, those living a area areas, western China other regions. In multivariate analysis, had 30% greater risk experiencing within each year did females. Living household biological parents, having father junior senior high school education, being college graduate an reduced debut.This study provides insight into basic patterns correlates youth.