The relationship between socioeconomic status and risky drinking in Denmark: a cross-sectional general population study

Table 1 Study sample characteristics (n, %) unweighted data, n = 3600

Study variables	Total	RSOD at least once monthly (%)	p-values^c
RSOD^a
Never	1079 (29.7)
Less than monthly	1628 (44.9)
1–3 times per month	676 (18.6)
At least 1–3 times per week	247 (6.8)
Female	1958 (54.3)	16.2	< 0.001
Male		36.6
Age			< 0.001
26–35	621 (17.2)	35.1
36–45	907 (25.2)	23.9
46–55	1040 (28.8)	25.6
56+	1036 (28.8)	21.0
Education, mean years of schooling (SD)^b	14.3 (2.94)		0.635
Log income, mean (SD)	5.5 (0.21)		< 0.001
Employment status
Employed	2534 (70.3)	27.1	< 0.001
Student/pupil	105 (2.9)	41.9
Unemployed	108 (3.0)	26.2
Pensioner	595 (16.5)	17.5
Other including homemakers	266 (7.3)	21.2
Civil status			< 0.001
In relationship	2927 (81.2)	24.0
Not in a relationship	322 (9.0)	26.7
Single	354 (9.8)	36.5
Living with children (< 18 yr.)	1499 (41.7)	21.9	< 0.001
Religiosity^b	597 (16.6)	19.4	< 0.001
Residence area			< 0.001
Capital	699 (19.4)	32.0
Rural	1519 (42.2)	21.6
Other cities	1384 (38.4)	26.0

Note:^a RSOD i.e. risky single occasion drinking was defined as drinking 5+ standard drinks on one occasion and we dichotomised it as one reporting at least once in a month in the last 12 months and zero otherwise
^battending religious ceremonies more than 4 times in the previous year, SD standard deviation
^cSpearman’s rank test between RSOD and covariates

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