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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008 Jun 6;32(8):1372–1379. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00708.x

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics of measures used in analysis models

* * Dependant Measures * * Mean Std. Dev
Perceived ease of formal access (possible range -2 to 2) -1.43 1.02
Perceived ease of informal access (possible range -8 to 8) -3.3 3.54
Times drank alcohol self-purchased from formal sources 0.13 0.88
Times drank alcohol obtained from informal sources 2.35 5.16
* * Individual Level Variables * * Mean or % Std. Dev

Off premise alcohol outlets within 2 miles (mean) 50.89 54.23

Available spending money ($/week) (mean) $27.84 32.64
Mobility indicator (sum of youth drives & friends drive) 0.83 0.7
Average age of close friends 15.57 1.45
Indicator of past year parental drinking 0.65 0.48

Deviance scale (square root of mean of 10 items) 6.42 8.4
Unrotated first principal component of conventionality items -0.004 0.919

% Male 50.7 5
Age (mean) 14.98 0.82
% Hispanic 34.46 0.48
% African-American 6.77 0.25
% Asian or Pacific Islander 5.07 0.22
* * Aggregate Level Variables * * Mean or % Std. Dev

% Hispanic 35.4 27.29
% African American (one race only) 7.34 12.77
% Asian or Pacific Islander (one race only) 8.13 9.88
Census Pop 2000 / sq mile 5,705.69 5,980.72
% owner occupied (of occupied Housing) 58.05 17.57
Median HH Income 48,492 20,492