Why is high-risk drinking more prevalent among men than women? evidence from South Korea

Chung, Woojin; Lim, Seungji; Lee, Sunmi

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-101

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Descriptive statistics (n = 23587)

From: Why is high-risk drinking more prevalent among men than women? evidence from South Korea

	Composition (%)				High-risk Drinking (%)
	Males	Females	Difference	p-value	Males	Females	Difference	p-value
All	-	-	-	-	0.374	0.076	0.298	< 0.0001
Age (years)
< 30	0.167	0.175	-0.008	0.1100	0.418	0.179	0.239	< 0.0001
30-39	0.251	0.235	0.016	0.0057	0.431	0.077	0.355	< 0.0001
40-49	0.243	0.221	0.022	< 0.0001	0.423	0.076	0.347	< 0.0001
50-59	0.157	0.149	0.007	0.1154	0.343	0.044	0.300	< 0.0001
≥ 60	0.184	0.221	-0.037	< 0.0001	0.218	0.017	0.201	< 0.0001
Marital status
Non-married	0.249	0.320	-0.071	< 0.0001	0.415	0.121	0.294	< 0.0001
Married	0.751	0.680	0.071	< 0.0001	0.360	0.055	0.305	< 0.0001
Education
Lower than college	0.648	0.774	-0.127	< 0.0001	0.359	0.066	0.293	< 0.0001
College or higher	0.352	0.226	0.127	< 0.0001	0.400	0.111	0.290	< 0.0001
Occupational status
Unemployed	0.222	0.537	-0.316	< 0.0001	0.316	0.059	0.257	< 0.0001
Non-manual occupation	0.233	0.124	0.109	< 0.0001	0.398	0.132	0.266	< 0.0001
Manual occupation	0.546	0.339	0.207	< 0.0001	0.387	0.083	0.304	< 0.0001
Household income
Lowest quartile	0.214	0.251	-0.036	< 0.0001	0.319	0.057	0.262	< 0.0001
2nd lowest quartile	0.259	0.255	0.004	0.4481	0.363	0.080	0.283	< 0.0001
2nd highest quartile	0.262	0.248	0.014	0.0112	0.403	0.088	0.315	< 0.0001
Highest quartile	0.264	0.247	0.018	0.0021	0.401	0.080	0.321	< 0.0001
Body mass index
< 20	0.349	0.313	0.036	< 0.0001	0.386	0.114	0.273	< 0.0001
20-24	0.425	0.454	-0.029	< 0.0001	0.337	0.056	0.281	< 0.0001
25-29	0.208	0.206	0.002	0.6573	0.418	0.059	0.360	< 0.0001
≥ 30	0.018	0.027	-0.009	< 0.0001	0.492	0.106	0.386	< 0.0001
Stress
Very low	0.157	0.162	-0.006	0.2300	0.305	0.046	0.259	< 0.0001
Low	0.488	0.485	0.003	0.6490	0.367	0.073	0.294	< 0.0001
High	0.291	0.289	0.001	0.8484	0.409	0.092	0.316	< 0.0001
Very high	0.065	0.063	0.002	0.6074	0.434	0.104	0.330	< 0.0001
Survey year
1998	0.367	0.356	0.012	0.0626	0.343	0.029	0.314	< 0.0001
2001	0.313	0.313	0.000	0.9966	0.354	0.072	0.282	< 0.0001
2005	0.320	0.332	-0.012	0.0571	0.429	0.131	0.298	< 0.0001

Notes: Standard deviations are in parentheses; a non-married marital status includes never-married, separated, widowed, and divorced participants; unemployed includes students and housewives; household income is standardized by household size; and p-values for mean differences are based on the t-test.

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