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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2013 Feb 18;49(11):2147–2158. doi: 10.1037/a0031843

Table 3.

Latent status membership: Unconditional likelihood of membership for the full sample and across subgroup in latent statuses pre-high school and post-high school transition.

Latent Status Pre-high school transition
Percentage (Estimated n)
Post-high school transition
Percentage (Estimated n)
Full sample (n=3,360)
  Non-drinking 87% (n=2,936) 73% (n=2,445)
  Light consumption 8% (n=263) 15% (n=513)
  Heavy drinking 5% (n=161) 12% (n=402)

Boys (n=1,756)
  Non-drinking 87% (n=1,533) 74% (n=1,297)
  Light consumption 7% (n=129) 13% (n=224)
  Heavy drinking 5% (n=94) 13% (n=236)

Girls (n=1,604)
  Non-drinking 88% (n=1,404) 72% (n=1,148)
  Light consumption 8% (n=132) 18% (n=289)
  Heavy drinking 4% (n=68) 10% (n=167)

Black, nonHispanic (n=822)
  Non-drinking 91% (n=748) 85% (n=695)
  Light consumption 6% (n=50) 11% (n=94)
  Heavy drinking 3% (n=23) 4% (n=33)

Hispanic (n=713)
  Non-drinking 86% (n=610) 72% (n=511)
  Light consumption 9% (n=62) 15% (n=107)
  Heavy drinking 6% (n=40) 13% (n=95)

nonBlack, nonHispanic (n=1,788)
  Non-drinking 85% (n=1,512) 66% (n=1,185)
  Light consumption 10% (n=177) 18% (n=325)
  Heavy drinking 6% (n=99) 16% (n=278)

Low monitoring (lower third) (n=1,008)
  Non-drinking 82% (n=826) 69% (n=696)
  Light consumption 11% (n=113) 16% (n=163)
  Heavy drinking 7% (n=70) 15% (n=149)

Moderate monitoring (middle third) (n=1,061)
  Non-drinking 88% (n=933) 71% (n=755)
  Light consumption 8% (n=81) 17% (n=176)
  Heavy drinking 4% (n=47) 12% (n=131)

High monitoring (upper third) (n=1,112)
  Non-drinking 93% (n=1033) 78% (n=867)
  Light consumption 4% (n=45) 13% (n=148)
  Heavy drinking 3% (n=33) 9% (n=96)

Low delinquency (n=1,838)
  Non-drinking 94% (n=1,726) 80% (n=1,470)
  Light consumption 4% (n=80) 13% (n=237)
  Heavy drinking 2% (n=34) 7% (n=131)

High delinquency (n=1,518)
  Non-drinking 78% (n=1,182) 63% (n=951)
  Light consumption 14% (n=207) 19% (n=287)
  Heavy drinking 9% (n=129) 18% (n=280)

Note. Likelihoods sum to 100% (within rounding error) within a column for each subsample.