Table 1.

A. Mean Values for all Analysis Variables: Females
Variables	No Binge Drinking¹ (n=4,652)	Occasional Binge Drinking² (n=2,032)	Approaching Weekly Binge Drinking³ (n=529)	Weekly Binge Drinking⁴ (n=509)
Sleep Problems, Past 4 Weeks
Trouble Falling Asleep (%)⁵ ^**	52.35	61.93	63.38	64.51
Trouble Staying Asleep (%)⁶ ^**	56.18	66.43	67.03	68.30
Snoring/Sleep Apnea (%)⁷ ^*	40.84	39.92	36.70	49.33

Explanatory Variables
Age (years) ^**	29.02 (1.81)	28.76 (1.78)	28.48 (1.69)	28.58 (1.74)

White (%) ^**	59.81	77.62	78.55	78.54
Hispanic (%) ^*	13.75	9.88	8.61	9.82
African-American (%) ^**	21.80	9.37	8.61	9.01
American Indian (%) ^**	0.33	0.52	1.34	0.99
Asian (%)	3.41	2.32	2.63	1.56
Other race (%)	0.86	0.26	0.21	0.06

Years of schooling ^**	14.01 (2.24)	14.59 (2.07)	14.53 (2.02)	14.34 (2.12)
Currently employed (%) ^**	55.51	66.44	69.99	62.43
Currently Married (%) ^**	45.45	37.58	30.62	22.29
Household size ^**	2.59 (1.68)	2.08 (1.51)	1.87 (1.54)	1.72 (1.49)
Labor market income, past year ^**	23,665 (29,298)	31,672 (42,391)	31,018 (24,825)	28,728 (26,581)
Born outside the U.S. (%) ^**	5.15	3.17	1.67	1.70

Fair or poor health (%)⁸ ^**	11.15	7.99	5.68	8.39
Good health (%)⁸	35.03	33.02	30.35	33.84
Very good or excellent health (%)⁸ ^**	53.80	58.98	63.96	57.76

Normal Weight (%)⁹ ^**	30.51	38.30	45.59	42.35
Underweight (%)⁹	2.33	1.91	1.18	1.77
Overweight (%)⁹	24.26	26.15	26.38	22.97
Obese (%)⁹ ^**	42.88	33.62	26.84	32.89

Heart problem (%)	1.16	1.41	0.23	0.14
Diabetes (%) ^**	3.26	2.71	1.17	1.08
High blood pressure (%) ^*	10.01	7.44	4.94	11.14

Any marijuana use, past 30 days (%) ^**	7.20	15.96	24.80	33.22
Any other illicit drug use, past 30 days (%) ^**	2.97	5.02	7.78	19.99
Current smoker (%) ^**	35.72	50.69	59.07	70.67

Past year psychological or emotional counseling (%)¹⁰ ^**	10.77	13.74	14.31	17.13
Depression (%)¹¹ ^**	20.74	23.95	23.22	31.60
Post-traumatic stress disorder (%)¹¹	3.67	3.08	4.11	5.73
Panic disorder (%)¹¹ ^**	16.13	18.71	22.38	28.76

B. Mean Values for all Analysis Variables: Males
Variables	No Binge Drinking¹ (n=3,071)	Occasional Binge Drinking² (n=1,903)	Approaching Weekly Binge Drinking³ (n=699)	Weekly Binge Drinking⁴ (n=1,108)
Sleep Problems, Past 4 Weeks
Trouble Falling Asleep (%)⁵ ^**	45.08	50.54	51.57	54.62
Trouble Staying Asleep (%)⁶ ^**	48.33	55.17	51.60	56.37
Snoring/Sleep Apnea (%)⁷ ^**	50.96	62.53	59.59	61.23

Explanatory Variables
Age (years) ^**	29.17 (1.86)	28.99 (1.80)	28.84 (1.82)	28.94 (1.8)

White (%) ^**	59.94	73.70	75.52	75.03
Hispanic (%)	12.46	11.65	11.27	11.05
African-American (%) ^**	23.51	9.02	9.43	10.07
American Indian (%)	0.37	0.58	0.39	1.32
Asian (%) ^**	3.02	3.91	2.40	1.79
Other race (%)	0.67	1.11	0.96	0.70

Years of schooling ^**	13.49 (2.20)	14.18 (2.15)	14.01 (2.07)	13.45 (2.06)
Currently employed (%) ^**	64.61	71.63	72.04	72.82
Currently Married (%) ^**	36.55	38.35	29.12	21.85
Household size ^**	2.20 (1.62)	1.95 (1.42)	1.95 (1.45)	1.81 (1.47)
Labor market income, past year ^**	33,018 (34,543)	46,336 (48,577)	42,482 (35,354)	37,303 (28,988)
Born outside the U.S. ^**	4.57	5.52	3.81	2.13

Fair or poor health (%)⁸ ^*	9.48	7.63	7.91	9.18
Good health (%)⁸ ^**	34.81	29.18	32.23	35.36
Very good or excellent health (%) ⁸ ^**	55.69	63.18	59.85	55.44

Normal Weight (%)⁹ ^*	28.96	28.08	27.58	33.05
Underweight (%)⁹	0.80	0.87	0.26	1.05
Overweight (%)⁹ ^**	31.28	36.33	40.54	35.51
Obese (%)⁹ ^**	38.94	34.71	31.60	30.37

Heart problem (%)	0.84	0.50	0.52	0.81
Diabetes (%) ^**	2.81	1.88	1.59	1.45
High blood pressure (%)	14.44	12.21	11.40	11.81

Any marijuana use, past 30 days (%) ^**	13.38	20.09	29.47	39.58
Any other illicit drug use, past 30 days (%) ***	4.63	7.53	9.89	16.22
Current smoker (%)	42.00	50.39	57.38	68.81

Past year psychological or emotional counseling (%) ¹⁰	8.67	8.32	6.65	7.02
Depression (%)¹¹	10.89	9.33	9.57	10.96
Post-traumatic stress disorder (%)¹¹	2.59	2.69	0.65	2.10
Panic disorder (%)¹¹ ^*	7.82	7.51	8.07	9.96

A respondent who reported no episodes of binge drinking during the past 12 months.

An occasional binge drinker is an individual who reported binge drinking 1 to 12 days during the past 12 months.

An approaching weekly binge drinker is an individual who reported binge drinking 2 or 3 days a month during the past 12 months.

⁴

A weekly or more frequent binge drinker is an individual who reported binge drinking 1 to 7 days a week during the past 12 months.

⁵

Respondent had trouble falling asleep at least once during the past 4 weeks.

⁶

Respondent had trouble staying asleep at least once during the past 4 weeks.

⁷

Respondent reported snoring or sleep apnea during the past 4 weeks.

⁸

Self-reported health status measure.

⁹

Weight variables are based on data collected by the Add Health interviewers.

¹⁰

Past year psychological or emotional counseling for any type of mental health problem or disorder

¹¹

Lifetime diagnoses of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder.

^**

Statistically significant difference in variable medians across the binge drinking categories, p<0.01, Kruskal-Wallis equality of populations rank test.

Statistically significant difference in variable medians across the binge drinking categories, p<0.05, Kruskal-Wallis equality of populations rank test.