Table 1.
Socio-Demographic, Neighborhood, and Binge Drinking Characteristics for White, Black, and Hispanic current drinkers in the New York Social Environment Survey (N=1,415)
| Individual Characteristics | Full Group | White | Black | Hispanic | p < .05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 45.14 (0.51) | 48.03 (0.65) | 43.42 (1.13) | 37.79 (1.01) | All |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 836 (61.6%) | 511 (59.9%) | 178 (64.8%) | 147 (63.5%) | None |
| Female | 579 (38.4%) | 366 (40.1%) | 114 (35.2%) | 99 (36.5%) | |
| Marital Status | |||||
| Married | 611 (49.5%) | 421 (55.8%) | 92 (37.6%) | 98 (43.5%) | W vs B, H |
| Divorced | 180 (9.5%) | 110 (9.0%) | 38 (11.1%) | 32 (9.1%) | |
| Separated | 52 (3.3%) | 14 (1.2%) | 18 (5.0%) | 20 (7.8%) | |
| Widowed | 102 (5.2%) | 72 (5.8%) | 22 (6.5%) | 8 (2.0%) | |
| Never Been Married | 463 (32.5%) | 257 (28.2%) | 120 (39.8%) | 86 (37.6%) | |
| Education | W vs B, H | ||||
| Less than high school | 100 (7.8%) | 24 (2.7%) | 33 (12.5%) | 43 (17.9%) | |
| High school graduate/GED | 263 (20.5%) | 118 (15.0%) | 76 (26.0%) | 69 (30.9%) | |
| Some college | 269 (20.4%) | 124 (16.2%) | 93 (32.2%) | 52 (20.0%) | |
| College graduate | 392 (26.1%) | 279 (31.0%) | 63 (19.7%) | 50 (18.7%) | |
| Graduate work | 389 (25.2%) | 331 (35.1%) | 26 (9.7%) | 32 (12.6%) | |
| Income | All | ||||
| Less than or equal to 40,000 | 405 (31.4%) | 163 (19.8%) | 124 (41.0%) | 118 (55.3%) | |
| More than 40,000 to 80,000 | 481 (37.0%) | 305 (38.2%) | 106 (41.2%) | 70 (28.6%) | |
| More than 80,000 | 400 (31.5%) | 319 (41.9%) | 46 (17.8%) | 35 (16.1%) | |
| Acceptance of Drunkenness | None | ||||
| Yes | 439 (30.6%) | 275 (30.9%) | 92 (32.2%) | 72 (27.5%) | |
| No | 976 (69.5%) | 602 (69.1%) | 200 (67.8%) | 174 (72.5%) | |
| Collective Efficacy | 3.61 (0.02) | 3.77 (0.03) | 3.48 (0.05) | 3.47 (0.05) | W vs. B, H |
| Neighborhood Characteristics* | |||||
| Acceptance of Drunkenness | 0.22 (0.002) | 0.23 (0.003) | 0.19 (0.003) | 0.21 (0.004) | All |
| Collective Efficacy | 3.61 (0.01) | 3.69 (0.01) | 3.49 (0.01) | 3.49 (0.02) | W vs. B, H |
| Physical Disorder | −0.21 (0.03) | −0.47 (0.03) | 0.17 (0.07) | 0.17 (0.07) | W vs. B, H |
| Outcome | |||||
| Binge Drinking in the Last Year | |||||
| Yes | 396 (29.0%) | 231 (27.8%) | 85 (26.7%) | 80 (35.1%) | None |
| No | 1019 (71.0%) | 646 (72.2%) | 207 (73.3%) | 166 (64.9%) | |
Note. W stands for White, B stands for Black and H stands for Hispanic. Frequency of response categories are unweighted; percentages, means and standard errors are weighted. Chi-square tests used for categorical variables; t-tests used for continuous variables.
Neighborhood characteristics are based on the averages across neighborhoods and are continuous variables. The range of acceptance of drunkenness was 0.11 to 0.44, indicating that neighborhoods ranged from 11% of respondents in a community district reporting that it is acceptable to get drunk to 44% of respondents in a community district reporting that it is acceptable to get drunk. Ranges for mean collective efficacy by neighborhood was 2.73 to 4.05, and mean physical disorder by neighborhood was −1.47 to 2.67. Physical disorder value is based on a principal component analysis of all variables indicative of neighborhood physical disorder based on the 2005 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.