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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2017 Jan 5;41(2):432–442. doi: 10.1111/acer.13298

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics

VARIABLES Sample L Sample M


Mean Std. Dev. Mean Std. Dev.
Any alcohol-impaired driving episode next year 0.36 0.48 0.57 0.50
Number of alcohol-impaired driving episodes next year 1.06 1.82 1.77 2.15

Legal Consequences of DWI: 2nd Person

Apprehension probability when driving impaired 0.18 0.20
Fine ($100) 9.07 11.22
Jail (weeks) 1.85 6.89
License suspension/revocation (months) 9.85 54.74
SCRAM device (months) 4.12 7.19

Legal Consequences of DWI: 3rd Person

Apprehension probability when driving impaired 0.10 0.14 0.09 0.13
Fine ($100) 9.02 11.11 9.77 12.24
Jail (weeks) 2.52 13.57 2.34 15.70
License suspension/revocation (months) 10.52 84.07 12.02 114.24
SCRAM device (months) 4.40 7.69 4.21 5.86

Extralegal Consequences of DWI

Increase in accident probability when driving impaired 0.53 0.42 0.43 0.38

Demographics

Age 43.20 12.67 41.36 11.86
Female 0.56 0.50 0.46 0.50
Non-white 0.17 0.37 0.14 0.35
Married 0.46 0.50 0.42 0.49
Education (years) 15.66 1.91 15.60 1.91
Household income ($1,000) 78.72 63.06 77.43 62.02

Risk-Taking Behaviors

Expected speeding apprehension probability 0.09 0.14 0.11 0.15
Hard drug user 0.13 0.34 0.19 0.39

Alcohol addiction

CAGE<2 0.63 0.48 0.56 0.50
CAGE=2 0.21 0.41 0.26 0.44
CAGE=3/4 0.16 0.36 0.18 0.39

Optimism bias

Self-Assessed better driver 0.74 0.44 0.73 0.45

Decision-making

Cognition index 12.02 1.26 12.01 1.25
Lack self-control 0.10 0.29 0.14 0.35
Impulsivity index 29.54 6.57 30.48 6.79
Observations 1,079 537
**

p<0.01,

*

p<0.05

Sample L is comprised of all SAD respondents. Sample M is a subsample of SAD respondents who estimated a non-zero probability that they would be pulled over for suspected DWI in the year between survey waves.

Abbreviations: Driving While Intoxicated = DWI, CAGE Questionnaire = CAGE, Secure Continous Remote Alcohol Monitoring = SCRAM.