Have you ever been tested for HIV? Do not count tests you may have had as part of a blood donation. Include oral test (where they take a swab from your mouth). B. Where did you have your last HIV test – at a private doctor or HMO office, at a counselling and testing site, at a hospital, at a clinic, in a jail or prison, at home, or somewhere else? As of 2024, HIVTEST2 has been recoded to only account for seven categories by combining jail, home, and drug treatment facility into "Somewhere else." This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of HIVTEST2. The original HIVTEST2 containing data from 2006 to 2022 has been renamed HIVTEST2_0622.
Place of last HIV test · Asked in 10 waves, 2006–2024 · 7,519 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Private doctor or hmo office |
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| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2024 | 2024-04-05 to 2024-12-02 | mixed | 3,309 | 717 |
| General Social Survey 2022 | 2022-05-08 to 2023-01-08 | mixed | 3,544 | 573 |
| General Social Survey 2021 | 2020-12-03 to 2021-05-02 | web | 4,032 | 738 |
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 580 |
| General Social Survey 2016 | 2016-04-05 to 2016-11-19 | face to face | 2,867 | 732 |
| General Social Survey 2014 | 2014-03-31 to 2014-10-13 | face to face | 2,538 | 1,028 |
| General Social Survey 2012 | 2012-03-20 to 2012-09-05 | face to face | 1,974 | 725 |
| General Social Survey 2010 | 2010-03-15 to 2010-08-12 | face to face | 2,044 | 744 |
| General Social Survey 2008 | 2008-04-17 to 2008-09-13 | face to face | 2,023 | 728 |
| General Social Survey 2006 | 2006-03-07 to 2006-08-07 |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Counseling and testing site |
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| Hospital |
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| Clinic |
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| Somewhere else |
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| Emergency room |
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| Hospital inpatient |
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| n |
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| MoE |
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| All respondents | 55% | 2% | – | 21% | 9% | 5% | 7% | 717 | ±5 | |
| Less than high school † | 37% | – | – | 21% | 15% | 18% | 8% | 74 | ±16 | |
| High school | 44% | 2% | – | 23% | 12% | 11% | 7% | 158 | ±11 | |
| Some college | 59% | 2% | – | 21% | 8% | 2% | 8% | 236 | ±8 | |
| Bachelor's | 65% | 3% | – | 20% | 6% | 2% | 5% | 160 | ±10 | |
| Postgraduate † | 61% | 4% | – | 22% | 8% | – | 5% | 89 | ±15 |
General Social Survey 2024 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.
| face to face |
| 4,510 |
| 954 |