Table 3.
Binge Drinking Occasions Among Past-Year Drinkers as a Function of Under 21 MLDA Exposure.
| 95% CI |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odds Ratio |
Lower | Upper | p | n | |
| All Past-Year Drinkers | 24088 | ||||
| No Binge Occasions | ref | -- | -- | -- | 12319 |
| 1 to 12 per year | 1.01 | .88 | 1.16 | .91 | 7194 |
| More than 1 per month | 1.15 | 1.04 | 1.28 | 0.01 | 4575 |
| Conditional Analyses by Sex | |||||
| Women | 11956 | ||||
| No Binge Occasions | ref | -- | -- | -- | 7446 |
| 1 to 12 per yeara | .91 | .77 | 1.07 | .26 | 3203 |
| More than 1 per month | 1.16 | .96 | 1.39 | .12 | 1407 |
| Men | 12132 | ||||
| No Binge Occasions | ref | -- | -- | -- | 5025 |
| 1 to 12 per yeara | 1.11 | .94 | 1.32 | .21 | 3998 |
| More than 1 per month | 1.19 | 1.03 | 1.37 | .02 | 3172 |
| Conditional Analyses by Educational Attainment | |||||
| No College | 8703 | ||||
| No Binge Occasions | ref | -- | -- | -- | 3961 |
| 1 to 12 per year | .97 | .80 | 1.18 | .77 | 2542 |
| More than 1 per monthb | 1.31 | 1.10 | 1.56 | <.001 | 2280 |
| Any College | 15386 | ||||
| No Binge Occasions | ref | -- | -- | -- | 8428 |
| 1 to 12 per year | 1.03 | .89 | 1.20 | .67 | 4659 |
| More than 1 per month b | 1.06 | .88 | 1.28 | .54 | 2299 |
Note. A binge was defined as drinking 5 or more drinks in a day in the NLAES and 5+/4+ (men/women) in the NESARC. Sex and educational attainment were covariates unless conditioned for; age, survey wave and race/ethnicity were covariates in all analyses.
Between-groups comparisons:
a
significant at p < .05,
b
near-significant at p = .054.