Table 5.
Conditional probabilities describing 10 latent classes from latent class analysis using all responses on the ordinal indicators in Wave I first half-sample (high conditional probabilities in bold)
| Variable | Latent classes |
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| 1 (55.2%) | 2 (12.8%) | 3 (12.7%) | 4 (5.9%) | 5 (3.8%) | 6 (3.6%) | 7 (1.9%) | 8 (1.6%) | 9 (1.6%) | 10 (0.9%) | |
| Drank >2–3 times | ||||||||||
| No | .836 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .001 | .001 | .001 | .002 |
| Yes | .164 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | .999 | .999 | .999 | .998 |
| Drinking frequency, past year | ||||||||||
| None | 1.000 | .002 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 1–2 days | .000 | .812 | .422 | .107 | .002 | .029 | .016 | .000 | .043 | .024 |
| 3–12 days | .000 | .175 | .436 | .372 | .034 | .199 | .145 | .000 | .247 | .179 |
| 2–3 days/month | .000 | .011 | .127 | .362 | .192 | .391 | .362 | .010 | .399 | .383 |
| 1–2 days/week | .000 | .000 | .015 | .143 | .446 | .310 | .368 | .130 | .262 | .331 |
| 3–5 days/week | .000 | .000 | .001 | .015 | .283 | .068 | .102 | .461 | .047 | .079 |
| Almost daily | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .044 | .004 | .007 | .399 | .002 | .005 |
| Usual no. of drinks/occasion | ||||||||||
| 0 | 1.000 | .001 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 1 | .000 | .559 | .076 | .033 | .009 | .007 | .453 | .018 | .072 | .129 |
| 2 | .000 | .298 | .147 | .080 | .030 | .023 | .322 | .050 | .143 | .209 |
| 3 | .000 | .112 | .202 | .138 | .069 | .056 | .160 | .099 | .199 | .237 |
| 4 | .000 | .023 | .152 | .131 | .086 | .075 | .044 | .109 | .152 | .148 |
| 5 | .000 | .006 | .142 | .155 | .134 | .126 | .015 | .148 | .144 | .115 |
| 6 | .000 | .001 | .061 | .084 | .097 | .097 | .002 | .093 | .063 | .041 |
| 7–90 | .000 | .001 | .219 | .379 | .575 | .618 | .003 | .484 | .227 | .121 |
| Times drunk/year | ||||||||||
| None | 1.000 | .955 | .292 | .034 | .000 | .000 | .822 | .000 | .395 | .000 |
| 1–2 days | .000 | .044 | .571 | .390 | .000 | .003 | .174 | .000 | .521 | .000 |
| 3–12 days | .000 | .000 | .136 | .537 | .000 | .214 | .005 | .000 | .083 | .000 |
| 2–3 days/month | .000 | .000 | .002 | .039 | .211 | .765 | .000 | .005 | .001 | .196 |
| 1–2 days/week | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .653 | .018 | .000 | .188 | .000 | .656 |
| 3–5 days/week | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .128 | .000 | .000 | .462 | .000 | .139 |
| Almost daily | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .008 | .000 | .000 | .345 | .000 | .009 |
| Frequency 5+ drinks/occasion | ||||||||||
| None | 1.000 | .935 | .436 | .006 | .000 | .000 | .989 | .000 | .000 | .267 |
| 1–2 days | .000 | .064 | .485 | .176 | .000 | .000 | .011 | .000 | .000 | .561 |
| 3–12 days | .000 | .001 | .079 | .737 | .001 | .111 | .000 | .000 | .001 | .171 |
| 2–3 days/month | .000 | .000 | .000 | .080 | .134 | .793 | .000 | .003 | .172 | .001 |
| 1–2 days/week | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .615 | .095 | .000 | .126 | .628 | .000 |
| 3–5 days/week | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .223 | .001 | .000 | .411 | .181 | .000 |
| Almost daily | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .028 | .000 | .000 | .461 | .018 | .000 |
| No. of negative consequences | ||||||||||
| 0 | .982 | .870 | .505 | .328 | .159 | .277 | .667 | .123 | .477 | .318 |
| 1 | .017 | .103 | .196 | .170 | .109 | .155 | .184 | .091 | .195 | .167 |
| 2 | .001 | .023 | .141 | .163 | .137 | .161 | .094 | .124 | .147 | .162 |
| 3 | .000 | .004 | .072 | .110 | .123 | .118 | .034 | .120 | .079 | .112 |
| 4 | .000 | .001 | .039 | .079 | .117 | .091 | .013 | .122 | .044 | .081 |
| 5 | .000 | .000 | .020 | .054 | .105 | .067 | .005 | .118 | .024 | .056 |
| 6+ | .000 | .000 | .027 | .097 | .251 | .132 | .005 | .304 | .034 | .103 |
Note: No. = number.