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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Stud Alcohol. 2006 Mar;67(2):252–260. doi: 10.15288/jsa.2006.67.252

Table 1.

Means and percentages for survey and driver history measures, by gender and overall (standard deviations in parentheses).

Measure na Women Mean (SD) or % Men Mean (SD) or % Total Mean (SD) or %
Survey measure
 No. drinks/weekb 3,501  2.52 (6.17)  4.56 (9.16)  3.56 (7.90)
 Alcohol misuse indexb 3,543  2.42 (3.17)  3.00 (3.95)  2.71 (3.60)
 Smoke cigarettes 3,450 46.7% 41.4% 44.3%
 Smoke marijuanac 3,431 29.5% 33.2% 31.4%
 Peer alcohol involvement index 3,210  5.07 (2.45)  5.23 (2.54)  5.15 (2.50)
 Parents indifferent/approve teen alcohol use 3,533 11.9% 12.4% 12.2%
 Easy access to alcoholc 3,551 89.6% 92.0% 90.8%
Driver history measures
 No. offensesb 3,607  0.92 (1.29)  2.02 (2.34)  1.47 (1.98)
 No. serious offensesb 3,607  0.23 (0.53)  0.60 (0.97)  0.42 (0.81)
 No. crashesb 3,607  0.54 (0.77)  0.77 (0.95)  0.66 (0.87)
 No. SV crashesb 3,607  0.05 (0.23)  0.09 (0.31)  0.07 (0.27)

Notes: SV = single vehicle.

a

Smaller n's reflect missing survey data

b

gender difference significant at α = .01

c

gender difference significant at α = .05.