Table 2.

Sample characteristics (N = 7,716)

Variable	M (SD) or %
Age, in years	37.94 (14.59)
Male, %	46.55
Race/ethnicity, %
African American	18.87
European American	73.38
Hispanic American	7.75
Services attendance, %
Never	21.82
<Monthly	36.07
Monthly	23.57
Weekly or more	18.55
Religious affiliation, %a
None	17.86
Catholic	34.34
Protestant	21.67
Fundamentalist Protestant	10.23
Other Christian	13.30
Other	2.60
Maximum drinks in 24 hours	15.57 (13.04)
Alcohol dependence symptoms	1.81 (2.21)
Alcohol dependence diagnosis	25.49

^aFor regression models, religious affiliation was recoded into two dummy variables including no affiliation (0, 1) and Catholic affiliation (0, 1).