Table 4.
Non-Heavy 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 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:
near-significant at p = .082,
near-significant at p = .073,
near-significant at p = .056.