Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of the NESARC sample, by family history

	Paternal History of Alcoholism						Maternal History of Alcoholism
	Positive		Negative				Positive		Negative
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	Chiχ2	p	n	%	n	%	Chiχ2	p
Gender
Male	3175	18.21	14193	81.79	30.67	<0.0001	1331	5.01	21675	94.99	11.73	0.0011
Female	4874	21.19	18132	78.81			789	6.07	16579	93.93
Education
Less than high school	1482	22.45	5676	77.55	79.46	<0.0001	365	5.93	6793	94.07	21.14	0.0004
High school graduate	2471	21.09	9223	78.91			596	5.44	11098	94.56
Some college	2569	21.35	9339	78.65			721	6.31	11187	93.69
College or higher	1527	14.74	8087	85.26			438	4.59	9176	95.41
Employment
Full time	4412	20.44	16558	79.56	14.22	0.0016	1152	5.68	19818	94.32	8.64	0.0173
Part time	848	20.5	3133	79.5			249	6.6	3732	93.4
Not working	2789	18.54	12634	81.46			719	5.08	14704	94.92
Marital Status
Married	4160	19.62	16766	80.38	4.21	0.1303	1059	5.42	19867	94.58	3.31	0.1995
Previously married	2033	20.69	8307	79.31			554	6.05	9786	93.95
Never married	1856	19.4	7252	80.6			507	5.58	8601	94.42
Race/ethnicity
White/other	4975	19.7	20179	80.3	2.09	0.3577	1492	5.94	23662	94.06	25.46	<0.0001
Black	1419	19.25	5975	80.75			377	5.17	7017	94.83
Hispanic	1655	20.67	6171	79.33			251	3.35	7575	96.65
Grew up with 2 biological parents
Yes	5836	16.86	28148	83.14	155.9	<0.0001	1420	4.35	32564	95.65	96.9	<0.0001
No	2213	35.4	4177	64.6			700	12.11	5690	87.89

Ns represent actual number of respondents in each category; % indicate weighted percentages