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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 4.

Models of Actual Access (# of times)

FORMAL INFORMAL

b t b t
Individual level variables:

 Off-premise outlets within 2 miles 0.391 ** 2.99 -0.228 * -2.45

 Available spending money 0.003 0.91 0.018 *** 7.55
 Mobility indicator 0.392 1.63 0.231 1.65
 Average age of close friends 0.160 *** 4.35 0.341 *** 5.48
 Past year parental drinking -1.544 *** -8.90 0.549 *** 3.60

 Deviance scale 0.565 *** 5.90 0.567 *** 11.61
 Conventionality scale 0.252 1.57 -0.250 * -2.32

 % Male 0.341 ** 2.70 -0.090 -1.19
 Age 0.354 1.92 -0.009 -0.10
 Hispanic 0.110 0.57 -0.463 *** -4.04
 African-American 0.597 1.39 -1.504 *** -5.82
 Asian or Pacific Islander -0.973 * -2.40 0.760 ** 3.36

Aggregate (zipcode) level variables:

 % Hispanic 0.028 ** 2.78 0.002 0.71
 % African American -0.034 ** -3.00 -0.013 ** -2.73
 % Asian or Pacific Islander 0.046 * 2.37 0.048 *** 7.89
 Population density 0.000 -1.04 0.000 *** 8.98
 % owner occupied 0.031 1.75 0.012 * 2.05
 Median HH Income 0.000 -0.42 0.000 -1.10
 Intercept -1.905 *** -11.65 0.653 *** 4.82

Results are based on hierarchical Poisson regression analyses of 1,419 persons nested within 50 zip codes; outcome measures are the number of drinking occasions on which alcohol was obtained from each source; exogenous variables grand-mean centered;

***

p <= .001,

**

p <= .01,

*

p <= .05