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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Jun 8;165:181–190. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.06.002

Table 3.

Racial/ethnic differences in cannabis use and disorder among past-year cannabis users aged 18 or older: 2005–2013 NSDUH

Race/ethnicity White Black Native-American Native-Hawaiian/
Pacific-Islander
Asian-American Mixed-race Hispanic
Sample size,
unweighted
n=43,238 n=8,946 n=1,394 n=338 n=1,258 n=2,626 n=8,079
Weighted Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI Mean 95% CI
Number of days
using cannabis,
past year
109.27 107.27–111.28 130.51 125.58–135.44 118.34 105.47–131.21 101.70 78.13–125.27 73.93 63.95–83.90 133.50 122.71–144.29 105.52 99.91–111.14
Weighted % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI % 95% CI
Monthly
cannabis use,
≥12 days/year
66.35 65.7–66.99 79.78 78.1–81.36 78.91 74.36–82.84 74.03 67.79–79.44 52.76 47.82–57.64 72.88 69.09–76.36 68.92 66.90–70.87
Weekly
cannabis use,
≥52 days/year
47.87 47.05–48.69 60.84 59.02–62.63 58.34 53.16–63.35 50.59 39.25–61.87 36.16 31.18–41.46 55.02 50.76–59.21 49.34 47.24–51.45
Cannabis abuse 4.07 3.78–4.38 5.91 5.17–6.75 7.49 5.26–10.56 3.19 1.45–6.85 4.39 3.17–6.06 3.98 2.91–5.42 6.03 5.24–6.92
Cannabis
dependence
7.72 7.32–8.14 12.32 11.27–13.45 13.79 10.48–17.93 7.42 5.14–10.59 9.49 7.04–12.69 9.45 7.46–11.90 10.68 9.53–11.95
Cannabis abuse
or dependence
11.79 11.30–12.31 18.23 16.87–19.67 21.28 17.11–26.14 10.60 7.10–15.54 13.88 10.93–17.48 13.42 11.00–16.29 16.70 15.29–18.22

CI: Confidence Interval.