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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2013 Jan 24;37(3):463–469. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01945.x

Table 4.

Non-Heavy Drinking Occasions Among Past-Year Drinkers as a Function of Under 21 MLDA Exposure.

95% CI
Odds
Ratio
Lower Upper p n
All Past-Year Drinkers 24088
No Non-heavy Occasions ref -- -- -- 3586
1 to 12 per year .81 .71 .94 <.001 8045
More than 1 per month .86 .74 1.00 .05 12457
Conditional Analyses by Sex
Women 11956
No Non-heavy Occasions ref -- -- -- 1307
1 to 12 per yeara .89 .75 1.05 .17 5106
More than 1 per month .93 .78 1.10 .38 5543
Men 12132
No Non-heavy Occasions ref -- -- -- 2281
1 to 12 per yeara .75 .63 .89 <.001 2937
More than 1 per month .82 .68 .99 .04 6914
Conditional Analyses by Educational Attainment
No College 8703
No Non-heavy Occasions ref -- -- -- 1927
1 to 12 per yearb .72 .58 .89 <.001 2894
More than 1 per month c .76 .64 .91 <.001 3882
Any College 15386
No Non-heavy Occasions ref -- -- -- 1661
1 to 12 per yearb .90 .72 1.14 .39 5151
More than 1 per month c .96 .76 1.20 .71 8574

Note. Sex and educational attainment were covariates unless conditioned for; age, survey wave and race/ethnicity were covariates in all analyses.

Between-groups comparisons:

a

near-significant at p = .082,

b

near-significant at p = .073,

c

near-significant at p = .056.