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. 2018 Jul 19;21(7):903–910. doi: 10.1093/ntr/nty152

Table 2.

Multilevel Models Examining Share of Advertising Voice and Exposure to Point-of-Sale (POS) Advertising as Independent Predictors of Product Use 1 Year Later Among Alternative High School Students (N = 746)

Variables Cigarettes Electronic cigarettes, vaporizers, and vape pens Cigars, cigarillos, and little cigars Chewing tobacco, snuff, and dip
β SE p β SE p β SE p β SE p
Fixed effects
Level 1: students
  Gender: male 0.31 0.09 .001 0.60 0.10 <.001 0.78 0.11 <.001 0.98 0.22 <.001
  Ethnicity: Hispanic −0.87 0.14 <.001 −0.67 0.13 <.001 −0.96 0.19 <.001 −1.19 0.24 <.001
  Ethnicity: African American −0.89 0.20 <.001 −0.85 0.22 <.001 −0.29 0.20 .146 −1.34 0.38 <.001
  Ethnicity: Other −0.39 0.21 .063 0.14 0.21 .498 −0.32 0.23 .172 −1.51 0.65 .020
  Age −0.07 0.05 .171 0.00 0.06 .953 −0.04 0.06 .459 −0.08 0.11 .431
  Prior use of tobacco products 0.88 0.10 <.001 0.98 0.12 <.001 0.46 0.12 <.001 0.20 0.20 .318
  Prior exposure to other advertising 0.01 0.05 0.768 0.10 0.05 .030 0.13 0.05 .017 0.09 0.08 .230
  Prior exposure to POS advertising 0.30 0.04 <.001 0.25 0.05 <.001 0.33 0.05 <.001 0.24 0.10 .014
 Level 2: schools
  Share of advertising voice 0.12 0.22 .593 0.04 0.21 .856 0.03 0.29 .929 0.33 0.48 .497
Random effects
 Level 2: schools 0.46 0.19 .015 0.26 0.11 .021 0.40 0.18 .027 0.88 0.48 .066
2 log-likelihood 2678 2206 2199 935
AIC 2701 2228 2221 957
BIC 2711 2239 2232 968

AIC = Akaike information criterion; BIC = Bayesian information criterion.