Figure 1.

Relationship between the categories of drinking and heavy drinking by women and the demographic characteristics of age, marital status, and employment status. The 1,099 women were interviewed in 1991 as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Women’s Drinking. They were classified as “drinking” if they drank any alcohol in the past 12 months and as “heavy drinking” if they drank two or more standard drinks per day during the past 30 days.