Table 4.

Effects of baseline neighborhood environment on 12 year alcoholism outcome, controlling for self and spousal AUD statuses at baseline, antisocial symptomatology, and demographic characteristics (N=206).

	Regression coefficient (standard error)
Intercept	4.38 (14.99)
Baseline neighborhood characteristics index1	0.77 (0.33)*
Self AUD status at baseline	13.25 (3.25)*
Spousal AUD status at baseline	2.75 (3.98)
Childhood antisocial behavior	0.22 (0.25)
Age at baseline (years)	−0.25 (0.28)
Education (years)	−0.47 (0.85)
Socioeconomic status	−0.004 (0.01)
R2	18%

^*The regression coefficient is significantly greater/less than zero (p<.01).

¹The baseline neighborhood characteristics index is averaged across 5 census tract variables at baseline (see text).