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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Subst Use Misuse. 2012 May 8;47(10):1086–1099. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2012.678540

TABLE 4.

Alcohol use by work environment

Work environment
Entertainment Personal service Street p-value
N (%) 553 (54%) 380 (37%) 89 (9%)
Age of onset (SD) 18.10 (3.75) 18.30 (3.71) 24.38 (6.65) <.0001
Setting of onset <.0001
 With family 170 (31%) 134 (37%) 22 (41%)
 With coworkers 75 (14%) 48 (14%) 8 (15%)
 With friends 242 (44%) 139 (39%) 6 (11%)
 With others 65 (12%) 39 (11%) 18 (33%)
Type of alcohol consumed at onset <.001
 Beer 443 (80%) 256 (71%) 32 (59%)
 Wine 36 (7%) 40 (11%) 5 (9%)
 Liquor 69 (13%) 57 (16%) 15 (28%)
 Other 5 (1%) 8 (2%) 2 (4%)
Drunk at onset 129 (23%) 74 (21%) 6 (11%)
Sex at onset 17 (3%) 13 (4%) 5 (9%)
Drug use at onset 13 (2%) 2 (1%) 0
General setting of alcohol use <.0001
 Alone 13 (2%) 21 (6%) 6 (11%)
 At work 424 (77%) 31 (9%) 3 (6%)
 With friends 105 (19%) 223 (63%) 17 (32%)
 With family 7 (1%) 64 (18%) 20 (38%)
 Other 3 ( < 1%) 17 (5%) 7 (13%)
Alcohol usually consumed
 Beer 540 (98%) 304 (85%) 41 (79%) <.0001
 Wine 153 (28%) 95 (27%) 7 (14%)
 Liquor 78 (7%) 31 (9%) 6 (12%)
Maximum amount
 Beer 19.45 (22.89) 8.40 (12.42) 2.24 (2.16) <.0001
 Wine 7.41 (13.01) 2.86 (3.08) 1.37 (0.86) <.0001
 Liquor 2.45 (2.79) 2.26 (2.10) 1.71 (1.25)
Frequency of intoxication <.0001
 Everyday 89 (16%) 8 (2%) 0
 Once/2–3 days 95 (17%) 11 (3%) 4 (8%)
 Once/week 106 (19%) 19 (5%) 3 (6%)
 ≤Once/month 181 (33%) 117 (33%) 10 (20%)
Never 78 (14%) 201 (57%) 34 (67%)
Intoxication at least weekly 290 (53%) 38 (11%) 7 (14%) <.0001
AUDIT score <.0001
 0–7 104 (19%) 280 (76%) 54 (86%)
 8–15 265 (48%) 61 (17%) 6 (10%)
 16–19 102 (18%) 19 (5%) 2 (3%)
 20–40 82 (15%) 7 (2%) 1 (2%)
Ever had sex with intoxicated clients 89 (18%) 108 (29%) 20 (24%) <.0001
Drink alcohol prior to sex 236 (43%) 108 (29%) 20 (24%) <.0001
Ever had sex with clients after drinking 173 (32%) 75 (46%) 10 (56%) <.0001
Had sex with clients during recent three times 65 (12%) 30 (19%) 7 (44%) <.0001
Number of sex trade during recent three times (SD) 1.16 (0.48) 1.29 (0.68) 1.63 (0.81) <.0001

Note. The number of participants for some of the variables did not add up to the total sample size because of missing data.