Table 3.

Associations between hazardous alcohol use and socio-demographic characteristics

	All populations studied		Alberta’s population		Queensland’s population
	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Male	1.03 (0.83, 1.27)	0.81	0.89 (0.65, 1.21)	0.44	1.22 (0.89, 1.66)	0.21
Age (y)
18-24	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
25-34	0.33 (0.16, 0.71)	0.04	0.44 (0.17, 1.12)	0.10	0.10 (0.03, 0.46)	<0.01
35-44	0.25 (0.12, 0.53)	<0.01	0.30 (0.11, 0.80)	0.02	0.16 (0.04, 0.62)	0.01
45-54	0.41 (0.20, 0.85)	0.02	0.40 (0.15, 1.06)	0.06	0.29 (0.08, 1.09)	0.07
55-64	0.30 (0.14, 0.64)	<0.01	0.28 (0.10, 0.77)	0.01	0.21 (0.05, 0.83)	0.03
64-74	0.38 (0.17, 0.85)	0.02	0.29 (0.09, 0.88)	0.03	0.26 (0.06, 1.06)	0.06
75+	0.24 (0.10, 0.59)	<0.01	0.22 (0.06, 0.78)	0.02	0.14 (0.03, 0.62)	0.01
Marital status
Single (never married)	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
Married	1.34 (0.85, 2.12)	0.21	1.44 (0.75, 2.75)	0.28	1.30 (0.64, 2.62)	0.47
Common-law	2.07 (1.16, 3.67)	0.01	1.89 (0.84, 4.25)	0.13	2.51 (1.03, 6.14)	0.04
Divorced	1.03 (0.62, 1.72)	0.92	1.82 (0.90, 3.68)	0.09	0.62 (0.28, 1.37)	0.24
Separate	1.39 (0.63, 3.07)	0.42	2.38 (0.83, 6.84)	0.11	0.88 (0.26, 30.2)	0.85
Widow	0.81 (0.45, 1.44)	0.47	1.26 (0.55, 2.89)	0.59	0.62 (0.27, 1.44)	0.27
Religion
Protestant	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
Catholic	1.17 (0.88, 1.54)	0.28	1.09 (0.70, 1.70)	0.71	1.29 (0.88, 1.90)	0.19
Other religion	0.60 (0.39, 0.92)	0.02	0.68 (0.41, 1.12)	0.13	0.34 (0.07, 1.67)	0.19
No religion	1.46 (1.14, 1.87)	<0.01	1.94 (1.32, 2.86)	<0.01	1.12 (0.80, 1.57)	0.51
Income (US dollar)
<25 000	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
25 001-49 999	0.93 (0.63, 1.38)	0.72	0.68 (0.32, 1.45)	0.32	1.04 (0.63, 1.70)	0.88
50 000-74 999	1.07 (0.70, 1.62)	0.77	1.41 (0.70, 2.84)	0.34	0.92 (0.52, 1.62)	0.77
75 000-99 999	1.39 (0.88, 2.17)	0.16	1.48 (0.70, 3.13)	0.31	1.52 (0.81, 2.86)	0.20
100 000-124 999	1.37 (0.87, 2.16)	0.17	2.10 (0.97, 4.52)	0.06	1.22 (0.65, 2.29)	0.54
≥125 000	1.92 (1.24, 2.96)	<0.01	2.88 (1.36, 6.09)	<0.01	1.71 (0.95, 3.06)	0.07
Employment status
Employed	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
Not employed	1.04 (0.74, 1.47)	0.82	1.12 (0.65, 1.92)	0.69	1.09 (0.69, 1.74)	0.71
Student	0.45 (0.18, 1.10)	0.08	0.54 (0.18, 1.62)	0.27	0.43 (0.07, 2.56)	0.43
Retired	1.14 (0.79, 1.63)	0.49	1.14 (0.67, 1.94)	0.63	1.39 (0.81, 2.39)	0.23
Disable	1.00 (0.62, 1.63)	0.99	0.64 (0.26, 1.56)	0.33	1.18 (0.60, 2.30)	0.64
Not Specified	0.86 (0.21, 3.51)	0.85	0.81 (0.15, 4.69)	0.85	2.45 (0.13, 44.63)	0.55
Education
Post-graduate	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
Primary	0.95 (0.30, 3.02)	0.93	N/A1		1.36 (0.37, 5.00)	0.65
High school	0.90 (0.69, 1.19)	0.47	0.73 (0.48, 1.11)	0.15	1.03 (0.70, 1.52)	0.89
Post-secondary	0.91 (0.70, 1.17)	0.45	0.83 (0.59, 1.18)	0.30	0.99 (0.67, 1.48)	0.97
Own house	1.19 (0.88, 1.62)	0.27	1.22 (0.78, 1.81)	0.42	0.95 (0.60, 1.50)	0.83
Children living at home	0.88 (0.66,1.16)	0.37	0.85 (0.57, 1.28)	0.43	0.83 (0.55, 1.25)	0.36
Adults living in the house
1 (lives alone)	1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)		1.00 (reference)
2	0.62 (0.40, 0.96)	0.03	0.56 (0.30, 1.05)	0.07	0.65 (0.35, 1.23)	0.19
≥3	0.52 (0.33, 0.83)	<0.01	0.33 (0.17, 0.66)	<0.01	0.69 (0.35, 1.35)	0.27
Born in Canada/Australia	1.24 (0.96, 1.61)	0.11	1.63 (1.06, 2.50)	0.03	1.05 (0.74, 1.49)	0.80

Multivariate logistic regression analyses used alcohol risk as the dependent variable.

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; N/A, not applicable.

¹The OR could not be calculated due to the very small group of people with only a primary education.