Table 5.

Conditional analyses predicting high school dropout from MLDA of 18 at age 17, combined NLAES/NESARC sample

Variable	OR	[95% CI]	n
Full sample	1.13	[1.05, 1.23]**	16,331
Conditioned on sex
Men	1.09	[0.81, 1.46]	6,956
Women	1.18	[1.03, 1.35]*	9,375
Conditioned on race/ethnicity
White	1.09	[0.87, 1.38]	10,870
Black	1.19	[0.99, 1.46]†	3,032
Hispanic	1.06	[0.90, 1.27]	2,429
Conditioned on self-report of parental alcohol problem
Parental drinking problem	1.40	[1.32, 1.48]***	4,166
No parental drinking problem	1.08	[0.96, 1.20]	12,165

Notes: MLDA = minimum legal drinking age, based on the 1991–1992 National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiological Survey (NLAES) and the 2001–2002 National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC); OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.

^†p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001.