Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for demographic, neighborhood contextual, and alcohol use and problem measures in a nationally-representative sample of United States young adults.

Variable	n	mean	SE	minimum	maximum
Demographic
Age	14,322	21.82	0.129	18	28
Sex = female	14,322	0.49	0.01	---	---
Race	14,307
White		0.65	0.03	---	---
Hispanic/Latino/a		0.12	0.02	---	---
Black		0.16	0.02	---	---
Asian		0.04	0.01	---	---
Native American		0.03	0.03	---	---
Household income (dollars)	13,530	32,738	911.66	0	900,000
Neighborhood contextual
Density on-premise alcohol outletsa	12,504	2.41	0.35	0	434.36
Density off-premise alcohol outletsa	12,504	2.29	0.38	0	249.68
Neighborhood disadvantageb	14,058	---	---	---	---
Metropolitan area	14,058	0.81	0.03	---	---
Micropolitan area		0.10	0.02	---	---
Small town		0.04	0.01	---	---
Rural area		0.04	0.12	---	---
Alcohol use and problems
Any alcohol use	14,064	0.74	0.01	---	---
Frequency of use (# days)	14,064	45.37	1.78	0	339
Frequency heavy drinking (# days)	14,011	27.87	0.99	0	339
Frequency drunk (# days)	14,001	16.38	0.85	0	339
Typical quantity (# drinks)	13,965	3.44	0.09	0	18
Alcohol problems	14,047	1.36	0.05	0	8

Note: Descriptive statistics are based on the analytic sample for which sampling weights were available, and are based on raw untransformed data in original units to facilitate interpretation.

^aper square kilometer

^bstandardized measure (mean = 0, SD = 1) derived from a factor analysis of 7 indicators