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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2008 Mar;22(1):25–35. doi: 10.1037/0893-164X.22.1.25

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics

Husband variables Wife variables
Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3 Wave 4 Wave 1 Wave 2 Wave 3 Wave 4
Frequency of heavy drinking (%)
    Weekly or more freq. of intox. 15.0% 13.0% 11.4% 10.2% 5.4% 4.5% 4.6% 4.3%
    1+ times per month freq. of intox. 19.7% 20.2% 18.9% 17.5% 11.7% 8.9% 7.4% 6.7%
    1+ times per year freq. of intox. 35.0% 33.0% 35.1% 35.4% 41.6% 37.6% 36.6% 35.6%
    None in the past year 30.3% 33.8% 34.7% 36.9% 41.3% 49.0% 51.3% 53.4%
Alcohol problems, mean (SD)1 3.61 (6.64) 3.65 (7.57) 2.99 (6.18) 2.47 (5.13) 1.49 (3.23) 1.57 (4.26) 1.13 (3.09) 1.25 (3.58)
1

Range for alcohol problems 0-35