Tab. III.
Another descriptive and bivariate analyses of alcohol use characteristics among male and female students who had experimented with alcohol.
| Total* N = 33113 %a (nb) |
Men** N = 9853 %a (nb) |
Women** N = 23260 %a (nb) |
p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not able to stop drinking once you had started (Yes) | < 0.0001 | |||
| < 1 time per month | 9.3 (2,882) |
11.0 (1,073) |
8.0 (1,809) |
|
| ≥ 1 time per month | 6.9 (1,851) |
10.2 (931) |
4.3 (920) |
|
| Failed to do what was normally expected from you because of drinking (Yes) |
< 0.0001 | |||
| < 1 time per month | 14.0 (4,348) |
16.4 (1,580) |
12.1 (2,768) |
|
| ≥ 1 time per month | 4.9 (1,326) |
7.3 (649) |
3.2 (677) |
|
| Had a feeling of guilt or remorse after drinking (Yes) | < 0.0001 | |||
| < 1 time per month | 19.9 (6,402) |
21.3 (2,055) |
18.9 (4,347) |
|
| ≥ 1 time per month | 6.0 (1,688) |
7.8 (699) |
4.6 (989) |
|
| Unable to remember what happened the night before because you had been drinking (Yes) | < 0.0001 | |||
| < 1 time per month | 18.5 (5,752) |
22.6 (2,228) |
15.3 (3,524) |
|
| ≥ 1 time per month | 6.0 (1,671) |
8.8 (856) |
3.8 (815) |
|
| Have you ever felt you should cut down on your drinking? (Yes) | 14.7 (4,303) |
18.6 (1,721) |
11.6 (2,582) |
< 0.0001 |
| Have people annoyed you by criticising your drinking? (Yes) | 10.7 (3,033) |
15.8 (1,505) |
6.8 (1,528) |
< 0.0001 |
| Have you ever felt you are drinking too much? (Yes) | 17.3 (5,139) |
22.7 (2,169) |
13.2 (2,970) |
< 0.0001 |
| Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (eye opener)? (Yes) | 1.2 (309) |
1.9 (164) |
0.7 (145) |
< 0.0001 |
| CAGE-Alcohol positivec | 12.8 (3,716) |
17.3 (1,619) |
9.4 (2,097) |
< 0.0001 |
a = percentage
b = number of individuals with that response category
c = with at least two positive answers
* = data weighted on gender and academic division
** = data weighted on academic division.