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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Sci. 2014 Aug;15(4):497–505. doi: 10.1007/s11121-013-0391-9

Table 2.

Proportion reporting alcohol consumption, drinking with peers, and descriptive norms by gender and race/ethnicity

Alcohol consumption (T2)
Drinking with peers (T1)
Descriptive norms (T2)
Drank alcohol (past 30 days) Got drunk (past 30 days) Binge drinking (within 2 h; past 30 days) Drank/got drunk with male friend(s) Drank/got drunk with female friend(s) Male closest friend Female closest friend Five closest friends
Total 33.9 22.3 19.5 19.0 16.5 33.8 28.9 38.7
Gender
 Male 35.0 24.9 19.8 21.1 15.0 34.3 27.2 37.7
 Female 33.0 20.1 19.3 17.2 17.6 33.3 30.3 39.4
Race/ethnicity
 White 37.5 28.6 23.5 23.0 19.7 39.6 34.3 46.5
 Afri. Am. 25.1 10.2 7.8 12.1 12.8 23.8 18.1 23.5
 Hispanic 29.1 12.9 17.7 13.8 11.0 24.5 22.2 29.4
 Other 41.3 27.3 20.1 13.2 11.3 34.9 28.3 33.3

T1 time 1, T2 Time 2, Afri. Am. African American

Descriptive norms are proportion of friends who drink or get drunk more than “never”

Frequencies are weighted