Table 2.

Characteristics of analysis sample of young men in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, 2001–2002 (N=3,194).

Characteristic	Weighted % or Mean (standard error)
Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration
No IPV	84.2
Physical IPV only	11.6
Sexual IPV only or physical and sexual IPV	4.2
Alcohol use
Lifetime abstainer or ex-drinker	22.6
Light drinker	8.1
Moderate drinker	6.1
Infrequent heavy drinker	14.0
Occasional heavy drinker	35.2
Frequent heavy drinker	14.0
Total alcohol outlet density in neighborhood (outlets per square kilometer)
Less than 1 outlet	55.3
1–8 outlets	35.7
More than 8 outlets	9.1
Age in years
18–20	24.4
21	16.6
22	16.1
23	16.1
24–27	26.8
Race/ethnicity
Hispanic	12.6
White	68.6
Black	14.6
Asian	3.0
American Indian	1.2
Marital status
Never married or lived with this partner	46.3
Ever lived with this partner but never married to him or her	31.6
Ever married to this partner	22.2
Neglected as a child (percent yes)	45.1
Sexually abused as a child (percent yes)	4.5
Physically abused as a child (percent yes)	29.3
Neighborhood characteristics control variables
Proportion of population in poverty, standardized [mean (SE)]	−0.53 (0.90)
Transience index, standardized [mean (SE)]	−0.14 (1.09)
Proportion population foreign-born [mean (SE)]	0.10 (0.01)
Proportion housing units vacant [mean (SE)]	0.08 (0.00)
Persons per square kilometer/1000 [mean (SE)]	1.81 (0.24)

Notes: 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 the present study’s intimate partner violence victimization and alcohol use variables, and whose index relationship was not a same-sex relationship.

SE = linearized standard error.