[GSS] Frequency Of Sex By Age And Marital Status

Using the GSS, I created two charts illustrating the frequency of sexual activity by respondent's age and marital status (for all respondents from 1972 to 2012). I recoded the variable for age for readability. I also created a chart for sexual frequency for all married respondents over time (by GSS year) - it's fairly stable. Finally, I created two charts for relationship status by frequency of sexual activity (flipping row and column for the second one - data are the same for the two charts).


Sex frequency by respondent's age - married:

Sex frequency by respondent's age - single:

Sex frequency by survey year - married:

Relationship status by sex frequency - single (i.e. unmarried):

Sex frequency by relationship status - single:

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Questions:

Frequency of sex: About how often did you have sex during the last 12 months?

Relation to last sex partner: The last time you had sex, was it with someone you were in an on-going relationship with, or was it with someone else? Remember that by "sex" we mean only vaginal, oral, or anal sex.