Table 1.
Prevalence of alcohol use behaviors among Asian American adolescents aged 12–17 years, 2002–2013.
| Alcohol Use Disorder | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lifetime | Past-Year | Past-Month | Past-Month Bingeaa | Early initiationb | Overall | Lifetime Usersc | |||||||||
| %d | wt% | 95% CI | wt% | 95% CI | wt% | 95% CI | wt% | 95% CI | wt% | 95% CI | wt% | 95% CI | wt% | 95% CI | |
| Chinese | 21 | 22.1 | (19.4, 25.1) | 16.6 | (14.3, 19.3) | 6.2 | (4.8, 8.0) | 2.7 | (1.8, 3.9) | 9.4 | (7.6, 11.6) | 1.0 | (0.6, 1.7) | 4.6 | (2.7, 7.8) |
| Filipino | 17 | 29.3 | (26.0, 32.7) | 22.0 | (19.1, 25.2) | 10.3 | (8.2, 12.8) | 5.2 | (3.7, 7.2) | 12.4 | (10.2, 14.9) | 3.5 | (2.5, 5.0) | 12.0 | (8.4, 16.8) |
| Japanese | 3 | 28.2 | (21.8, 35.5) | 21.6 | (16.0, 28.5) | 8.6 | (5.5, 13.2) | 4.8 | (2.7, 8.4) | 12.7 | (8.4, 18.6) | 1.7 | (0.8, 3.5) | 5.9 | (2.7, 12.3) |
| Asian Indian | 22 | 14.6 | (12.6, 17.0) | 11.9 | (10.0, 14.1) | 4.9 | (3.8, 6.4) | 2.6 | (1.8, 3.9) | 4.9 | (3.7, 6.5) | 1.0 | (0.5, 1.8) | 6.7 | (3.7, 11.8) |
| Korean | 10 | 28.6 | (24.4, 33.3) | 22.7 | (18.8, 27.0) | 9.2 | (6.8, 12.2) | 5.4 | (3.6, 8.1) | 9.5 | (7.3, 12.4) | 3.4 | (2.1, 5.5) | 11.9 | (7.4, 18.6) |
| Vietnamese | 11 | 28.9 | (24.5, 33.6) | 20.5 | (16.8, 24.8) | 7.1 | (5.0, 9.8) | 3.6 | (2.1, 6.0) | 13.5 | (10.6, 17.2) | 1.9 | (0.9, 3.8) | 6.5 | (3.2, 12.7) |
| Other Asian | 14 | 24.5 | (20.7, 28.9) | 15.9 | (12.9, 19.4) | 6.6 | (4.8, 9.1) | 3.0 | (1.8, 4.9) | 11.3 | (8.7, 14.5) | 2.3 | (1.3, 3.9) | 9.2 | (5.4, 15.3) |
| Asian, multiple ethnicities |
2 | 25.1 | (18.4, 33.2) | 19.9 | (14.1, 27.3) | 8.5 | (4.7, 15.0) | 4.3 | (1.9, 9.5) | 11.0 | (6.3, 18.6) | 1.7 | (0.8, 3.4) | 6.8 | (3.1, 14.4) |
| All Asians | 100 | 23.6 | (22.3, 25.0) | 17.6 | (16.5, 18.9) | 7.2 | (6.4, 8.0) | 3.6 | (3.1, 4.2) | 9.8 | (8.9, 10.7) | 2.0 | (1.6, 2.4) | 8.3 | (6.8, 10.1) |
wt%, weighted prevalence in percent; 95% CI, confidence interval
a
Defined as five or more drinks on the same occasion.
b
Defined as alcohol use prior to age 14 years.
c
Past-year alcohol use disorder among lifetime alcohol users.
d
Frequencies are not available in NSDUH-RDAS data. Only the percentage of each ethnic group relative to all Asian Americans included in the surveys is reported.