Table 2.

Estimated effects of background variables on marijuana and cocaine abuse and dependence: Estimates for Latent Variables of Lifetime Marijuana Use:

	MIMIC Model among Lifetime Marijuana Users (N=5,780)				MIMIC Model among Lifetime Cocaine Users (N=1,585)

	Abuse		Dependence		Abuse		Dependence

	Est.	S.E.	Est.	S.E.	Est.	S.E.	Est.	S.E.
Age (in years)	−0.01^**	.002	−0.02^**	.002	−0.01^*	.008	−0.01^**	.004
Male	0.47^**	.065	−0.01	.043	0.14^**	.050	0.08	.051
Black	−0.30^**	.074	0.02	.061	0.03	.107	0.29^**	.090
Hispanic	−0.32^**	.109	−0.17^*	.081	−0.01	.107	−0.10	.107
< 12 years	0.04	.065	0.01	.051	−0.20^*	.100	−0.06	.105
> 12 years	−0.08^*	.035	−0.13^**	.030	−0.01	.059	−0.16^*	.071
Previously married	−0.02	.046	−0.05	.047	0.07	.068	0.11	.069
Never married	−0.11^**	.045	−0.08^*	.038	−0.14^*	.070	−0.04	.082
Employed full	0.01	.039	0.04	.037	0.01	.075	−0.07	.065
Employed part	−0.05	.061	0.02	.048	0.04	.105	−0.03	.107
Lifetime treatment	1.03^**	.078	0.73^**	.065	0.80^**	.068	1.00^**	.069

R²	.19		.11		.14		.22

Chi square=96.4 (36); CFI=.99; RMSEA=.01.

Chi square=45.5 (29); CFI=.99; RMSEA=.01.

^**

p < .01.

p < .05.