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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2014 Aug 18;28(4):1117–1126. doi: 10.1037/a0037459

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the NESARC sample (2004–2005)

Total sample Women Men
N unweighted % weighted N unweighted % weighted N unweighted % weighted
Age (years)
20–29 4913 16.34 2787 15.68 2126 17.05
30–39 6621 18.71 3945 18.14 2676 19.32
40–49 7539 21.50 4224 21.06 3315 21.99
50–59 6117 17.74 3416 17.63 2701 17.86
60–69 4174 11.52 2363 11.42 1811 11.63
>70 5289 14.19 3354 16.07 1935 12.15
Nativity
US-born 29287 86.14 17010 86.56 12277 85.67
Foreign born 5363 13.86 3076 13.44 2287 14.33
Race-ethnicity
White 20161 70.91 11308 70.62 8853 71.22
Black 6587 11.05 4261 11.94 2326 10.08
Native American 578 2.19 338 2.31 240 2.06
Asian and Pacific Islander 968 4.27 542 4.20 426 4.35
Hispanic 6359 11.58 3640 10.92 2719 12.29
Income
≤ $19,999 15189 42.19 10938 55.36 4251 27.87
$20,000–$34,999 8087 23.11 4512 21.82 3575 24.52
$35,000–$69,999 8180 24.29 3706 18.12 4474 31.00
≥$70,000 3197 10.41 933 4.70 2264 16.61
Disordered drug use (past year)
Disordered opiate use 154 0.54 73 0.42 81 0.68
Disordered cannabis use 491 1.60 155 0.86 336 2.40
Disordered stimulant use 128 0.40 43 0.25 85 0.58
Childhood adversities (CA)
None 18919 56.25 11013 56.76 7906 55.69
1–2 types of CA 10016 28.33 5505 26.42 4511 30.41
3 or more types of CA 5718 15.42 3571 16.82 2147 13.90
Past year minor stressors
None 12458 36.56 7238 37.04 5220 36.04
1 to 2 17384 50.05 10059 49.81 7325 50.31
3 or more 4781 13.39 2772 13.15 2009 13.66
Past year major stressors
None 22745 66.75 13142 67.09 9603 66.38
1 to 2 10405 29.29 6061 29.02 4344 29.57
3 or more 1503 3.96 886 3.89 617 4.04