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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Rev. 2013 Apr 10;32(5):512–518. doi: 10.1111/dar.12042

Table 3.

Odds Ratios (95% Confidence Interval) of any drinking yesterday versus last week, separately from between-and within-person approach

Dominican Republic Guatemala Guyana Nicaragua Panama Canada Combined Test of heterogeneity3
Between-person
 Unadjusted 1.49 (1.02, 2.18)* 0.61 (0.37, 1.00) 0.95 (0.64, 1.40) 0.71 (0.53, 0.97)* 1.22 (0.86, 1.73) 1.04 (0.62, 1.72) 0.96 (0.82, 1.12) Q=14.1 (p=0.015)
 Adjusted1 1.45 (0.98, 2.16) 0.61 (0.36, 1.02) 0.97 (0.65, 1.47) 0.78 (0.55, 1.11) 1.24 (0.85, 1.83) 1.03 (0.60, 1.76) 1.00 (0.85, 1.18) Q=10.0 (p=0.075)
Within-person
 Unadjusted 1.86 (0.97, 3.56) 0.58 (0.33, 1.01) 0.82 (0.44, 1.53) 0.41 (0.21, 0.81)* 1.38 (0.79, 2.42) 1.00 (0.51, 1.96) 0.89 (0.70, 1.14) Q=14.8 (p=0.011)
 Adjusted2 1.57 (0.80, 3.07) 0.56 (0.31, 1.01) 0.83 (0.44, 1.56) 0.49 (0.24, 0.99)* 1.34 (0.73, 2.48) 1.01 (0.51, 1.99) 0.93 (0.72, 1.19) Q=9.7 (p=0.083)
1

Controlling for gender, age and day of the week

2

Controlling for day of the week

3

Test of heterogeneity reports Q-statistics and relevant p-values based on χ2 test across 6 countries (df=5)

p<0.10,

*

p<0.05