Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of the Massachusetts public college and university student samples, 1999 and 2001.
|
1999 sample (N = 1,252) |
2001 sample (N = 1,074) |
Chi-square statistic (df) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | n | % | n | % | p-valuec |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 511 | 40.9 | 417 | 39.0 | 0.85 (1) |
| Female | 737 | 59.1 | 651 | 61.0 | .510 |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||
| White non-Hispanic | 1071 | 88.4 | 929 | 87.4 | 6.1 (3) |
| Black non-Hispanic | 34 | 2.8 | 28 | 2.6 | .013 |
| Hispanic | 62 | 5.1 | 34 | 3.2 | |
| Other race/ethnicity | 45 | 3.7 | 72 | 6.8 | |
| Age | |||||
| <21 years | 638 | 51.0 | 502 | 47.0 | 0.86 (1) |
| >=21 years | 612 | 49.0 | 567 | 53.0 | 0.38 |
| Year in School | |||||
| Freshman | 285 | 22.9 | 259 | 24.3 | 2.94 (5) |
| Sophomore | 310 | 24.9 | 225 | 21.1 | .069 |
| Junior | 312 | 25.0 | 254 | 23.8 | |
| Senior | 257 | 20.6 | 253 | 23.7 | |
| >=5th year undergraduate | 83 | 6.7 | 76 | 7.1 | |
| Type of Residence | |||||
| On-campus | 616 | 49.7 | 574 | 53.9 | 1.37 (1) |
| Off-campusa | 624 | 50.3 | 490 | 46.1 | .269 |
| Fraternity/Sorority Member | 50 | 4.0 | 30 | 2.6 | 4.68 (1) .056 |
| Heavy Drinking in High Schoolb | |||||
| No | 729 | 58.8 | 581 | 54.7 | 5.31 (1) |
| Yes | 510 | 41.2 | 481 | 45.3 | .044 |
a Includes off-campus house or apartment, fraternity or sorority house, and other.
b Ever having >=5 drinks in a row (or >=4 for females) during last year of high school.
c Chi-square p-value estimates generated using SUDAAN® 9.0 software to account for sampling design effects.