Table 3.
Demographic characteristics and alcohol prevalence rates for RDS and WebRDS samples.
| Demographic variables | Sample population (unweighted), n (%) N=1012a |
P | ||
|
|
RDS sample n=232b |
WebRDS sample n=780b |
|
|
| Sex |
|
|
.82 | |
|
|
Male | 136 (58.6) | 465 (59.6) |
|
|
|
Female | 96 (41.4) | 315 (40.4) |
|
| Age (years) |
|
|
.10 | |
|
|
14 | 49 (21.1) | 133 (17.1) |
|
|
|
15 | 71 (30.6) | 207 (26.5) |
|
|
|
16 | 58 (25.0) | 256 (32.8) |
|
|
|
17 | 54 (23.3) | 184 (23.6) |
|
| Indigenous status |
|
|
<.001 | |
|
|
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander | 13 (5.7) | 6 (0.8) |
|
|
|
Not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander | 215 (94.3) | 770 (99.2) |
|
| Main language spoken at home |
|
|
.03 | |
|
|
Australian | 218 (94.4) | 694 (89.4) |
|
|
|
Other | 13 (5.6) | 82 (10.6) |
|
| Socioeconomic level (SEIFA deciles) |
|
|
<.001 | |
|
|
1-3 | 19 (8.4) | 5 (0.7) |
|
|
|
4-7 | 59 (26.2) | 131 (17.1) |
|
|
|
8-10 | 147 (65.3) | 630 (82.2) |
|
| Drinking behavior |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Never used alcohol | 51 (22.2) | 210 (26.9) | .17 |
|
|
Past month drinkingb | 75 (64.1) | 156 (54.4) | .08 |
|
|
Past 7-day drinking | 50 (21.6) | 90 (11.6) | <.001 |
|
|
Past 7-day risky drinkingc | 30 (13.0) | 52 (6.7) | .004 |
a Numbers may not add up to total (N=1012; RDS: n=232; WebRDS: n=780) due to missing data.
b “Past month drinking” only completed by participants who reported having ever drunk before.
c Risky drinking derived from “past 7-day drinking” variable using National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines of >4 drinks per day [30].