Table 3.

Estimated odds ratios for last month alcohol use, 7th–9th grades and 10th–12th grades

	7th–9th grades	10th–12th grades
Intercept	.01**	.03**
Remote	.89**	.99
Medium rural	.95a	.95
African-American Comm (AAC)	1.11*	1.15*
Mexican-American Comm (MAC)	1.34**	1.29**
Per capita liquor outlets	1.03**	1.03
Beer/wine in grocery/other stores	.96	.91a
AAC × per capita liquor outlets	.90*	.97
MAC × per capita liquor outlets	.83**	.74**
MAC × beer/wine in storesb	.80*	.80*
Community perceived availability	1.22**	1.52**
African-American student	.94	.86**
African-American Comm	1.10	.98
Mexican-American student	1.14**	1.06
Mexican-American Comm	.99	.89
Female	.81**	.62**
Grade	1.12	1.06**
Parents care about drinking	.53**	.56**
Peers get drunk	2.46**	2.49**
Trouble if caught drinking at school	.94	1.02
Chances caught drinking by police	.96**	1.10**
Perceived availability	1.43**	1.32**
Threshold 2 (δ2)	2.62**	2.83**
Threshold 3 (δ3)	12.09**	14.42**
Threshold 4 (δ4)	56.28**	56.69**

^**ρ < .01

^*ρ < .05

^aρ < .10

^bAAC × beer/wine in store not included due to perfect collinearity