Table 2.
Relationship between harms suffered as a result of others drinking in the past 12 months, and AUDIT score and educational achievement†
| Aggressive harms from others’ drinking |
Other harms from others’ drinking |
All harms | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Physically assaulted | Sexually harassed or assaulted | Verbally insulted | Any aggressive harm | Unintended injury | Traffic incident | Kept awake | Property damaged | Any other harm | ||
| AUDIT (score) | |||||||||||
| Lower risk (0–7) | 28 048 | 3.80 | 6.33 | 31.12 | 34.61 | 4.47 | 0.55 | 27.15 | 7.83 | 32.74 | 51.077 |
| Increasing risk (8–15) | 25 622 | 8.39 | 8.27 | 43.47 | 48.33 | 8.47 | 0.89 | 30.54 | 13.14 | 40.63 | 64.437 |
| Higher risk (16–19) | 4582 | 14.03 | 9.95 | 54.45 | 59.78 | 14.49 | 1.88 | 33.57 | 21.54 | 50.11 | 74.531 |
| Dependence (20+) | 3177 | 20.68 | 12.34 | 60.12 | 65.66 | 21.03 | 3.12 | 36.07 | 26.53 | 54.64 | 77.432 |
| χ2 | 1690.268 | 214.862 | 1987.737 | 2268.329 | 1516.174 | 254.624 | 190.337 | 1520.194 | 1052.194 | 1940.784 | |
| p Value | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | *** | |
| Educational attainment | |||||||||||
| No high school education | 6530 | 10.05 | 6.23 | 39.63 | 43.89 | 8.50 | 1.32 | 22.53 | 12.48 | 33.23 | 56.769 |
| High school or higher | 56 337 | 7.07 | 7.86 | 39.46 | 43.74 | 7.64 | 0.88 | 30.09 | 11.96 | 38.89 | 59.904 |
| χ2 | 76.146 | 21.734 | 0.074 | 0.051 | 6.035 | 12.401 | 161.729 | 1.48 | 79.27 | 23.882 | |
| p Value | *** | *** | NS | NS | NS | *** | *** | NS | *** | *** | |
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
†Some respondents (3.6%) did not answer all AUDIT questions, and therefore, an AUDIT score could not be calculated. For educational attainment 1.4% of respondents did not provide data.
AUDIT, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test; NS, not significant.