Unweighted demographic characteristics by sample strata
| Listed 15–17 years old n=3518 | Listed 18–21 years old n=4066 | Unlisted 15–21 years old n=2644 | Total n=10 228* | 2014 Census†n=29,244,457 | |
| Age, years | |||||
| 15–17 | 57.8% | 13.9% | 42.5% | 36.4% | 44.5% |
| 18–21 | 42.2% | 86.1% | 57.5% | 63.6% | 55.5% |
| Gender | |||||
| Female | 48.8% | 54.5% | 54.3% | 52.5% | 49.4% |
| Male | 51.2% | 45.6% | 45.7% | 47.5% | 50.6% |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| White | 78.2% | 68.9% | 51.7% | 67.7% | 54.9% |
| Black/African-American | 6.1% | 9.9% | 15.6% | 10.1% | 14.4% |
| Hispanic | 7.8% | 11.5% | 19.4% | 12.3% | 22.3% |
| Other | 7.9% | 9.7% | 13.2% | 10.0% | 8.4% |
| Region | |||||
| North-East | 24.1% | 23.6% | 17.0% | 22.1% | 17.2% |
| South | 31.9% | 35.9% | 37.6% | 35.0% | 36.6% |
| Midwest | 29.9% | 25.5% | 22.3% | 26.2% | 21.6% |
| West | 14.2% | 15.0% | 23.1% | 16.8% | 24.6% |
| MSA category | |||||
| Non-metro | 13.1% | 13.4% | 14.8% | 13.6% | 15.6% |
| Metro | 87.0% | 86.6% | 85.3% | 86.4% | 84.4% |
*Twenty-nine respondents were removed from the final baseline sample due to lack of sufficient contact information for recontact at wave 2.
†Source: US Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. https://www.census.gov/cps/data/
MSA, metropolitan statistical area.