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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009 Jan 15;33(4):654–662. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00880.x

Table 4.

Social disadvantage by racial/ethnic group, current drinkers only

Whites (N=2,810) Blacks (N=766) Hispanics (N=504)
Income as a percentage of the federal poverty level (p<0.001) (p<0.001)
 >200% 80.7 59.3 60.8
 100–200% 12.9 22.2 17.2
 <100% 6.4 18.5 22.0
Frequency of unfair treatment (p<0.001) (p<0.001)
 Never/seldom 77.5 58.2 67.4
 Sometimes 18.5 30.5 26.0
 Often/very often 4.1 11.2 6.6
Racial/ethnic stigma consciousness (p<0.001) (p<0.001)
 Low 77.5 29.1 50.2
 Medium 19.5 41.5 38.5
 High 3.0 29.5 11.3

p-values shown for chi-square tests comparing blacks, and Hispanics, to whites