TABLE 2.

Characteristics of Analysis Sample of Young Men in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 2001–2002 (N = 3,197)

Characteristic	No.	Weighted % or Mean (SE)
Victim of intimate partner violence
No IPV victimization	2,491	77.88
Physical IPV only	483	15.73
Sexual IPV only or physical and sexual IPV	223	6.39
Alcohol use
Lifetime abstainer or ex-drinker	726	22.59
Light drinker	299	8.18
Moderate drinker	195	6.11
Infrequent heavy drinker	455	14.05
Occasional heavy drinker	1,134	35.16
Frequent heavy drinker	388	13.92
Alcohol outlet density in neighborhood (outlets per square kilometer)
Less than 1 outlet	1,521	55.18
1–8 outlets	1,069	35.70
More than 8 outlets	359	9.11
Age in years
18–20	591	24.40
21	491	16.59
22	630	16.16
23	647	16.13
24–27	838	26.72
Race/ethnicity
Hispanic	573	12.56
Non-Hispanic White	1,809	68.55
Non-Hispanic Black	572	14.63
Non-Hispanic Asian	201	3.04
Non-Hispanic American Indian	42	1.21
Marital status
Never married or lived with his partner	1460	46.22
Ever lived with his partner but never married	948	31.61
Ever married to his partner	734	22.17
Neglected as a child (percent yes)	1386	45.07
Sexually abused as a child (percent yes)	124	4.42
Physically abused as a child (percent yes)	939	29.29
Neighborhood characteristics control variables
Proportion of population in poverty, standardized (mean [SE])		−0.59 (0.91)
Transience index, standardized (mean [SE])		−0.33 (1.05)
Proportion of foreign-born population (mean [SE])		0.10 (0.01)
Proportion of vacant housing units (mean [SE])		0.08 (0.00)

Note. Based on the sample of young adult men at Wave III in the national probability sample with at least one reported current relationship, with nonmissing data on this study’s intimate partner violence victimization and alcohol use variables, and whose index relationship was not a same-sex relationship.

SE = standard error; IPV = intimate partner violence.