Table 1a.

Sample Characteristics after Propensity Score Weighting (2009-10 U.S. National Alcohol Survey)

	Men Total			Male Current Drinkers			Women Total			Female Current Drinkers
	Black	White	p	Black	White	p	Black	White	p	Black	White	p
Age 18-29	0.26	0.27	0.8737	0.25	0.22	0.7199	0.27	0.25	0.7175	0.31	0.27	0.6614
30-39	0.18	0.16	0.8400	0.23	0.23	0.9557	0.16	0.15	0.7908	0.20	0.18	0.7185
40-49	0.25	0.24	0.8177	0.29	0.31	0.8853	0.19	0.22	0.5717	0.23	0.25	0.7683
50-59	0.15	0.16	0.8179	0.12	0.13	0.7178	0.16	0.15	0.7652	0.14	0.15	0.8104
60+	0.16	0.16	0.9826	0.11	0.11	0.8541	0.22	0.23	0.6357	0.12	0.15	0.3942
Marital status: married	0.52	0.54	0.8495	0.61	0.69	0.3297	0.35	0.35	0.9768	0.36	0.35	0.9303
Separate/divorce	0.07	0.06	0.8127	0.07	0.04	0.5515	0.18	0.17	0.7782	0.17	0.17	0.9512
Widowed	0.04	0.04	0.9929	0.02	0.02	0.7732	0.10	0.10	0.7801	0.05	0.05	0.8691
Never married	0.37	0.36	0.9265	0.30	0.25	0.4903	0.37	0.38	0.8142	0.42	0.42	0.9441
Education: < HS grad	0.23	0.20	0.6344	0.20	0.13	0.3002	0.17	0.21	0.5149	0.06	0.05	0.7370
HS grad	0.36	0.40	0.6138	0.32	0.36	0.6718	0.36	0.32	0.3606	0.33	0.28	0.4491
Some college	0.24	0.24	0.9811	0.29	0.30	0.8771	0.22	0.20	0.6179	0.25	0.27	0.8116
College grad	0.17	0.17	0.8640	0.18	0.21	0.6905	0.24	0.27	0.5798	0.36	0.40	0.5823
Employment: Full time	0.42	0.43	0.8533	0.48	0.55	0.4316	0.36	0.35	0.7652	0.48	0.47	0.9011
Part-time	0.10	0.13	0.6642	0.14	0.09	0.3324	0.09	0.08	0.8125	0.07	0.06	0.5975
Unemployed	0.19	0.16	0.6183	0.20	0.16	0.5872	0.17	0.17	0.9784	0.17	0.21	0.5348
Retired	0.13	0.13	0.8738	0.09	0.09	0.9855	0.15	0.17	0.5522	0.05	0.06	0.7603
Other	0.16	0.14	0.6410	0.09	0.12	0.7386	0.24	0.24	0.9811	0.23	0.20	0.7607
Income: < 100% Federal Poverty Level (FPL)	0.22	0.22	0.9700	0.22	0.15	0.4057	0.33	0.30	0.6366	0.23	0.22	0.9151
100-199% FPL	0.24	0.24	0.9288	0.26	0.28	0.8051	0.18	0.17	0.7812	0.20	0.17	0.6145
200-299% FPL	0.06	0.08	0.4620	0.04	0.07	0.4436	0.11	0.11	0.8985	0.16	0.12	0.5316
300-399% FPL	0.17	0.16	0.7394	0.17	0.19	0.8038	0.09	0.09	0.9171	0.11	0.11	0.8941
400% + FPL	0.17	0.18	0.8076	0.22	0.23	0.8097	0.17	0.18	0.7072	0.25	0.30	0.5118
Missing	0.14	0.12	0.7434	0.10	0.09	0.9090	0.12	0.15	0.6666	0.06	0.08	0.7118
Frequency of unfair treatment (1-4)	2.12	2.10	0.8794	2.18	2.20	0.8906	2.13	2.18	0.7380	2.15	2.17	0.8751
Neighbor disadvantage	0.36	0.36	0.9693	0.34	0.33	0.6244	0.35	0.35	0.9721	0.34	0.32	0.2751
Neighbor advantage	0.26	0.26	0.8673	0.29	0.30	0.5907	0.28	0.28	0.9617	0.30	0.33	0.4769
Liquor store density (per 1000 population)	0.11	0.12	0.7791	0.11	0.11	0.8023	0.11	0.11	0.7100	0.11	0.09	0.2755
PROTECTIVE RESOURCES
Religion very important and discourages drinking (1=yes)	0.38	0.40	0.8477	0.29	0.25	0.6023	0.43	0.45	0.7602	0.39	0.37	0.8100
Network disapproval of drinking (mean; range 0-6)	3.23	3.31	0.8184	2.41	2.32	0.7936	3.93	4.07	0.4861	2.87	2.96	0.8077
Network disapproval of heavy drinking (mean; range 0-3)	2.45	2.47	0.8761	2.22	2.23	0.9619	2.63	2.61	0.7991	2.47	2.53	0.5919
Dryness of network based on “regular” drinking (mean; range 0-3)	1.83	1.91	0.5483	1.65	1.68	0.8568	2.14	2.20	0.4193	1.98	1.98	0.9591
Dryness of network based on heavy drinking (mean; range 0-3)	2.47	2.51	0.7139	2.38	2.44	0.6817	2.54	2.55	0.9132	2.49	2.49	0.9992
Family social support (mean; range 0-12)	10.16	10.32	0.6373	10.33	10.31	0.9738	9.70	9.56	0.7028	9.65	9.62	0.9497
Area religious membership(per 1000 population)	514.45	526.15	0.6389	517.79	505.57	0.5655	520.31	517.14	0.8039	524.62	522.65	0.9070

Notes. Pairwise tests comparing Whites to Blacks indicated no significant differences.