. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Drug Issues. 2008;38(1):171–198. doi: 10.1177/002204260803800108

Table 2.

Hierarchical Linear Modeling Event Rate Ratio Predicting Marijuana Use and Heavy Episodic Drinking (Controlling for PST) for Ethnic Identity, Language, and Affiliation/Identification Trajectory Groups

Ethnic Identity			Language Use			Affiliation/Identification

Fixed effects/Group³	Heavy Episodic Drinking²	Marijuana Use²	Group³	Heavy Episodic Drinking²	Marijuana Use²	Group³	Heavy Episodic Drinking²	Marijuana Use²

Initial Level: High EI (n= 70)	2.75^***^a	1.03^b	Bilingual (n=81)	1.31^a	1.73^*^a	Primarily Mexican (n=103)	2.26^***^a	2.18^***^a
Moderate EI (n=178)	1.64^***^a	2.28^***^a	Primarily English (n=71)	1.90^***^a	1.81^*^a	Dual Cultural (n=197)	1.25^b	1.54^**^a
Low EI (n=52)	0.82^b	1.73⁺^a	Monolingual (n=148)	1.41⁺^a	1.65^*^a

Rate of Change: High EI	0.76^***^b	1.09^b	Bilingual	0.89⁺^a	0.84^*^{b, d}	Primarily Mexican	0.82^*^a	0.87^*^a
Moderate EI	0.94^a	0.89^*^a	Primarily English	0.95^a	1.05^{a, c}	Dual Cultural	1.02^b	1.02^b
Low EI	1.13^a	1.02^a,b	Monolingual	0.96^a	0.99^{c, d}

Variance components¹
Level-2: Inital Level	5.14^***	5.59^***		4.99^***	5.53^***		5.09^***	5.41^***
Rate of Change Age	8.51^***	14.42^***		8.17^***	14.75^***		8.23^***	14.85^***
Rate of Change PST	0.29^***	0.38^***		0.29^***	0.39^***		0.28^***	0.37^***
Rate of Change Age by PST	0.71^***	1.18^***		0.71^***	1.23^***		0.72^***	1.26^***

Goodness-of-fit
Deviance	6181.83	7008.00		6289.37	7042.55		6159.16	6939.30
AIC	6213.83	7040.00		6321.37	7074.55		6183.16	6963.30
BIC	6362.03	7188.20		6469.57	7222.74		6294.31	7074.45

Variance component at Level-1 is π²/3=3.2899.

Pairwise exploratory comparisons at p-value of .05, coefficients that share superscripts do not significantly differ.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the sample size for each group.

⁺

p < .10.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.