NSDUH: Mean quantity of drinking on drinking days in the past 30 days, by age, sex, and race/Hispanic origin, among current drinkers ages 12–20, United States, 1991

[ythdrk4.htm, dated 11/07]

Sex, Race/Hispanic origin, and Year	Age
	12–20		12–14		15–17		18–20
	Drinks	S.E.	Drinks	S.E.	Drinks	S.E.	Drinks	S.E.
Both Sexes
All races
2005	4.9	0.1	2.9	0.1	4.6	0.1	5.2	0.1
2004	5.0	0.1	2.7	0.2	4.9	0.1	5.3	0.1
2003	4.9	0.1	3.4	0.3	5.0	0.1	5.0	0.1
2002	5.1	0.1	3.2	0.2	5.1	0.2	5.3	0.1
2001	5.0	0.1	3.2	0.3	5.0	0.1	5.2	0.1
2000	6.2	0.1	4.4	0.3	6.3	0.2	6.4	0.2
1999	6.1	0.1	4.1	0.3	6.3	0.2	6.3	0.2
1998	4.4	0.2	3.0	0.3	4.3	0.3	4.6	0.2
1997	4.3	0.1	2.8	0.4	4.3	0.2	4.5	0.2
1996	4.3	0.1	3.1	0.3	4.1	0.2	4.7	0.2
1995	4.1	0.1	3.1	0.4	4.2	0.2	4.3	0.2
1994	4.4	0.2	3.1	0.3	3.9	0.2	4.9	0.2
1993	4.3	0.2	2.8	0.4	4.1	0.2	4.7	0.2
1992	4.5	0.2	2.7	0.3	4.1	0.3	4.9	0.2
1991	4.5	0.1	2.5	0.2	4.9	0.2	4.7	0.2
Non-Hispanic White
2005	5.1	0.1	3.2	0.2	4.9	0.1	5.4	0.1
2004	5.3	0.1	2.7	0.2	5.3	0.2	5.5	0.1
2003	5.1	0.1	3.6	0.3	5.2	0.1	5.3	0.1
2002	5.4	0.1	3.4	0.2	5.4	0.2	5.7	0.1
2001	5.2	0.1	3.1	0.3	5.3	0.2	5.5	0.1
2000	6.4	0.1	4.7	0.4	6.6	0.2	6.6	0.2
1999	6.3	0.1	4.2	0.3	6.5	0.2	6.5	0.2
1998	4.7	0.2	3.5	0.4	4.5	0.4	4.9	0.3
1997	4.6	0.2	2.9	0.5	4.5	0.3	4.9	0.3
1996	4.6	0.2	3.2	0.4	4.3	0.2	5.0	0.2
1995	4.2	0.2	3.2	0.5	4.2	0.2	4.5	0.2
1994	4.5	0.2	3.3	0.3	4.2	0.2	4.9	0.2
1993	4.6	0.2	3.0^#	0.6	4.2	0.3	4.9	0.3
1992	4.9	0.2	3.0	0.5	4.3	0.3	5.3	0.2
1991	4.9	0.2	2.5	0.3	5.4	0.3	4.9	0.2
Non-Hispanic Black
2005	2.8	0.3	1.6	0.2	2.6	0.3	3.1	0.4
2004	3.3	0.2	1.8	0.2	3.1	0.3	3.5	0.3
2003	2.9	0.2	1.8	0.3	2.6	0.2	3.2	0.2
2002	3.0	0.2	2.2^#	0.4	3.3	0.5	3.0	0.2
2001	3.4	0.3	4.8^#	2.7	2.8	0.2	3.5	0.3
2000	4.6	0.4	2.5	0.4	4.1	0.5	5.0	0.6
1999	4.5	0.4	2.5^#	0.5	3.8	0.4	5.0	0.6
1998	2.6	0.2	1.8	0.3	2.5	0.3	2.7	0.2
1997	2.6	0.2	1.8	0.2	3.0	0.2	2.5	0.3
1996	2.9	0.2	2.1^#	0.4	2.5	0.2	3.1	0.3
1995	2.7	0.2	2.6^#	0.5	2.4	0.4	2.9	0.3
1994	3.9^#	1.0	2.5^#	0.5	2.1	0.2	5.2^#	1.7
1993	2.9	0.3	1.5	0.1	2.5	0.2	3.2	0.5
1992	2.9	0.2	1.4	0.2	3.1	0.5	2.9	0.2
1991	3.1	0.2	1.8	0.2	3.5	0.3	3.2	0.2
Hispanic
2005	5.1	0.3	3.0	0.3	4.6	0.5	5.7	0.4
2004	5.2	0.3	3.1	0.5	4.3	0.3	6.0	0.4
2003	4.9	0.2	2.9	0.5	4.9	0.4	5.2	0.3
2002	4.7	0.2	2.8	0.3	4.5	0.3	5.1	0.3
2001	5.1	0.4	2.9	0.4	4.8	0.4	5.5	0.5
2000	6.2	0.5	3.5^#	0.7	6.1	0.6	6.7	0.7
1999	6.1	0.4	3.7	0.5	5.3	0.3	7.0	0.6
1998	4.3	0.2	2.3	0.3	4.0	0.2	4.8	0.3
1997	4.0	0.2	3.8^#	1.1	4.0	0.3	3.9	0.3
1996	4.3	0.3	3.2	0.4	4.2	0.4	4.5	0.3
1995	4.4	0.3	2.8	0.4	4.8	0.5	4.3	0.4
1994	4.4	0.3	3.1^#	0.6	3.9	0.5	4.9	0.4
1993	4.7	0.3	2.9^#	0.6	5.0	0.5	4.8	0.3
1992	4.2	0.2	2.5	0.3	4.1	0.4	4.7	0.3
1991	4.3	0.2	3.0	0.4	3.9	0.3	4.9	0.3
Native American/Alaska Native
2005	5.6	0.5	–	–	6.3^#	1.4	5.4	0.6
2004	6.7	0.9	–	–	5.2	0.8	8.0^#	1.6
2003	7.4	1.2	–	–	6.4	1.0	6.8^#	1.2
2002	9.4^#	3.0	6.6^#	2.4	14.6^#	7.7	6.0^#	1.2
2001	5.6	0.6	–	–	6.0	0.8	4.9^#	0.9
2000	5.9	0.9	–	–	5.3	0.7	7.1^#	1.7
1999	5.6	0.5	–	–	5.9	0.9	5.5	0.5
Asian, Native HI/Other PI
2005	3.5	0.3	–	–	3.0^#	0.5	3.7	0.3
2004	3.3	0.3	2.5^#	1.0	3.7^#	0.9	3.3	0.3
2003	4.5	0.5	–	–	4.1^#	1.3	4.6	0.6
2002	4.4	0.5	–	–	4.4^#	1.2	4.5	0.6
2001	3.5	0.3	1.7^#	0.3	3.2	0.5	3.8	0.4
2000	5.3	0.7	–	–	4.2^#	0.8	5.8	0.8
1999	5.1	0.7	5.2^#	3.2	8.1^#	2.1	4.0	0.5
More than one race
2005	5.1	0.5	3.9^#	1.0	4.5	0.7	5.5	0.8
2004	5.3	0.7	2.2	0.3	5.2	0.8	5.7^#	1.1
2003	3.9	0.4	3.2^#	1.2	5.3	0.9	3.3	0.4
2002	4.9	0.4	2.5^#	0.6	4.7	0.8	5.5	0.5
2001	4.9	0.6	–	–	4.3^#	0.8	5.4	0.8
2000	5.8	1.0	5.3^#	1.5	6.6^#	1.8	5.2^#	1.5
1999	7.7^#	1.6	–	–	11.0^#	4.1	5.3	0.9
Male
All races
2005	5.7	0.1	3.0	0.2	5.3	0.2	6.1	0.2
2004	5.9	0.1	2.6	0.3	5.4	0.2	6.4	0.2
2003	5.7	0.1	3.9	0.5	5.9	0.2	5.9	0.1
2002	5.9	0.1	3.2	0.3	5.9	0.2	6.2	0.2
2001	5.8	0.1	3.4^#	0.6	5.6	0.2	6.1	0.2
2000	7.3	0.2	4.6	0.5	7.5	0.3	7.5	0.3
1999	7.3	0.2	4.3	0.4	7.6	0.3	7.5	0.2
1998	4.9	0.2	3.2	0.4	4.8	0.5	5.2	0.3
1997	5.2	0.2	3.1^#	0.6	5.0	0.4	5.6	0.4
1996	5.0	0.2	4.0	0.6	4.8	0.2	5.3	0.2
1995	5.0	0.2	3.5	0.6	4.9	0.3	5.3	0.3
1994	5.2	0.3	3.2	0.4	4.5	0.2	5.7	0.4
1993	5.3	0.3	3.9^#	1.0	4.9	0.4	5.6	0.4
1992	5.3	0.2	3.1^#	0.6	4.7	0.5	5.8	0.3
1991	5.2	0.2	2.3	0.2	5.6	0.4	5.4	0.2
Non-Hispanic White
2005	6.0	0.1	3.0	0.3	5.7	0.2	6.4	0.2
2004	6.2	0.2	2.7	0.3	6.1	0.2	6.6	0.2
2003	6.0	0.1	4.1	0.6	6.0	0.2	6.2	0.2
2002	6.4	0.1	3.5	0.4	6.5	0.3	6.7	0.2
2001	6.0	0.2	2.9	0.3	5.9	0.2	6.4	0.2
2000	7.6	0.2	4.9	0.6	7.8	0.4	7.8	0.3
1999	7.6	0.2	4.4	0.5	7.9	0.4	7.8	0.3
1998	5.3	0.3	3.6	0.5	5.0	0.6	5.6	0.4
1997	5.5	0.3	3.4^#	0.8	5.3	0.5	5.9	0.4
1996	5.4	0.2	4.2	0.7	5.0	0.3	5.7	0.3
1995	5.1	0.2	3.7^#	0.7	4.8	0.3	5.8	0.3
1994	5.2	0.2	3.7	0.6	4.7	0.3	5.6	0.3
1993	5.6	0.3	4.7^#	1.5	5.1	0.5	6.0	0.5
1992	5.7	0.3	3.5^#	0.8	5.1	0.5	6.2	0.3
1991	5.6	0.2	2.3	0.3	6.1	0.4	5.7	0.3
Non-Hispanic Black
2005	3.3	0.5	1.9^#	0.4	2.9	0.5	3.6	0.6
2004	3.5	0.2	1.6^#	0.3	3.2	0.5	3.8	0.3
2003	3.4	0.3	1.5	0.2	3.1	0.5	3.7	0.4
2002	3.2	0.3	1.9	0.3	2.7	0.3	3.5	0.4
2001	3.8	0.4	6.9^#	4.5	3.1	0.4	3.7	0.3
2000	5.2	0.7	2.6	0.4	5.3^#	1.0	5.5^#	1.0
1999	4.9	0.7	3.1^#	1.0	3.6	0.5	5.5	0.9
1998	2.9	0.2	1.9^#	0.5	2.6	0.3	3.1	0.3
1997	3.1	0.4	2.0^#	0.4	3.4	0.4	3.2^#	0.6
1996	3.0	0.3	–	–	2.7	0.4	3.2	0.3
1995	3.0	0.3	3.2^#	0.8	2.6^#	0.6	3.3	0.3
1994	5.0^#	1.6	2.4	0.4	2.2	0.2	6.6^#	2.5
1993	3.3	0.5	1.5	0.2	2.8	0.3	3.8^#	0.9
1992	3.2	0.3	1.8	0.2	3.3^#	0.7	3.3	0.4
1991	3.6	0.3	1.9	0.3	4.0	0.6	3.8	0.4
Hispanic
2005	6.2	0.5	3.0^#	0.6	5.6^#	1.1	6.8	0.7
2004	6.3	0.4	2.6^#	0.7	4.1	0.4	7.9	0.7
2003	6.0	0.4	3.9^#	1.1	6.5	0.6	6.0	0.5
2002	5.2	0.3	2.7	0.4	5.2	0.4	5.7	0.4
2001	6.0	0.6	3.5^#	0.7	5.3	0.5	6.6	0.9
2000	7.5	0.7	3.8^#	1.4	7.3	1.0	8.0	1.0
1999	7.5	0.5	4.6^#	1.1	6.5	0.5	8.4	0.8
1998	5.0	0.3	2.0^#	0.4	4.8	0.4	5.5	0.4
1997	4.5	0.4	2.7	0.4	4.9	0.5	4.6	0.5
1996	5.1	0.4	4.1^#	0.8	5.2	0.6	5.2	0.4
1995	5.3	0.5	1.8^#	0.4	6.2	0.8	5.1	0.7
1994	5.5	0.4	2.0	0.2	5.3	0.8	5.9	0.6
1993	5.4	0.4	2.8^#	0.8	5.5	0.7	5.7	0.5
1992	4.9	0.3	2.1^#	0.5	4.1	0.6	5.8	0.5
1991	5.1	0.3	3.3	0.4	4.5	0.4	5.8	0.4
Native American/Alaska Native
2005	5.9	0.8	–	–	7.6^#	1.8	5.1^#	1.0
2004	5.5	0.8	–	–	5.5^#	1.2	5.0^#	1.2
2003	9.4^#	2.3	–	–	7.0	1.1	7.6	1.3
2002	6.4^#	1.5	–	–	–	–	6.5^#	2.1
2001	6.1	0.8	–	–	6.0	1.0	6.7^#	1.6
2000	4.9^#	1.0	–	–	6.7^#	1.5	4.5^#	1.4
1999	6.1	0.8	–	–	6.5^#	1.5	5.7	0.6
Asian, Native HI/Other PI
2005	4.1	0.5	–	–	3.2^#	0.6	4.6	0.6
2004	3.4	0.4	–	–	3.8^#	1.2	3.5	0.4
2003	5.8	0.9	–	–	8.4^#	3.3	5.3	0.9
2002	4.7	0.8	–	–	4.2^#	1.3	5.1^#	1.0
2001	4.5	0.5	–	–	4.2^#	0.8	5.0	0.7
2000	6.0	0.9	–	–	5.6^#	1.5	6.2^#	1.2
1999	6.0^#	1.1	–	–	9.0^#	2.8	4.6	0.8
More than one race
2005	5.6	0.9	–	–	3.7	0.6	6.2^#	1.2
2004	7.8	1.2	2.6^#	0.6	7.0^#	1.4	8.9^#	1.9
2003	4.1	0.5	1.8	0.3	5.2^#	1.3	3.6^#	0.8
2002	5.9	0.6	–	–	4.8	0.8	6.6	0.8
2001	6.0	1.0	–	–	5.2^#	1.7	6.4^#	1.4
2000	5.4^#	1.5	–	–	3.9^#	0.9	6.5^#	2.3
1999	9.4^#	2.7	–	–	17.2^#	7.3	6.0^#	1.2
Female
All races
2005	3.9	0.1	2.9	0.2	3.9	0.1	4.0	0.1
2004	4.1	0.1	2.8	0.2	4.4	0.2	4.0	0.1
2003	3.9	0.1	2.9	0.3	4.1	0.1	4.0	0.1
2002	4.2	0.1	3.1	0.2	4.3	0.3	4.3	0.1
2001	4.1	0.1	3.0	0.3	4.3	0.2	4.2	0.1
2000	5.0	0.1	4.2	0.4	5.0	0.2	5.1	0.2
1999	4.8	0.1	4.0	0.5	5.0	0.2	4.8	0.2
1998	3.7	0.3	2.8	0.4	3.7	0.3	3.8	0.5
1997	3.2	0.1	2.5	0.4	3.5	0.2	3.1	0.1
1996	3.4	0.1	2.4	0.2	3.3	0.3	3.7	0.2
1995	3.1	0.1	2.5	0.2	3.4	0.2	3.1	0.1
1994	3.5	0.2	3.0	0.3	3.2	0.3	3.8	0.2
1993	3.3	0.2	2.0	0.2	3.3	0.2	3.5	0.3
1992	3.6	0.2	2.1	0.2	3.4	0.2	3.8	0.2
1991	3.7	0.2	2.7	0.4	4.0	0.3	3.7	0.2
Non-Hispanic White
2005	4.2	0.1	3.2	0.2	4.2	0.1	4.3	0.1
2004	4.2	0.1	2.7	0.3	4.6	0.2	4.2	0.1
2003	4.2	0.1	3.2	0.4	4.5	0.2	4.2	0.1
2002	4.3	0.1	3.2	0.3	4.2	0.2	4.5	0.1
2001	4.3	0.1	3.2	0.4	4.6	0.2	4.3	0.1
2000	5.2	0.2	4.5	0.5	5.3	0.2	5.2	0.2
1999	4.9	0.2	3.9	0.4	5.2	0.2	5.0	0.2
1998	4.0	0.4	3.3^#	0.6	3.9	0.3	4.1	0.6
1997	3.4	0.1	2.1	0.2	3.7	0.2	3.4	0.2
1996	3.6	0.2	2.4	0.3	3.6	0.4	3.8	0.2
1995	3.3	0.2	2.5	0.3	3.6	0.2	3.2	0.2
1994	3.8	0.2	2.9	0.3	3.6	0.3	4.1	0.3
1993	3.4	0.2	1.9	0.2	3.3	0.2	3.7	0.4
1992	3.8	0.2	2.2	0.3	3.4	0.3	4.1	0.3
1991	3.9	0.2	2.7^#	0.5	4.4	0.4	3.9	0.2
Non-Hispanic Black
2005	2.2	0.1	1.5	0.2	2.2	0.2	2.4	0.2
2004	3.0	0.2	2.0^#	0.4	3.0	0.5	3.0	0.4
2003	2.4	0.1	1.9^#	0.4	2.2	0.1	2.6	0.2
2002	2.9	0.3	2.4^#	0.6	3.9^#	0.9	2.4	0.1
2001	3.0	0.4	1.8^#	0.4	2.6	0.2	3.3^#	0.6
2000	3.8	0.4	2.3^#	0.7	3.0	0.4	4.4	0.6
1999	4.0	0.4	1.8	0.2	4.0	0.7	4.3	0.5
1998	2.3	0.2	1.7^#	0.3	2.4	0.4	2.3	0.2
1997	2.1	0.1	1.7	0.2	2.6	0.3	1.9	0.2
1996	2.7	0.3	1.9^#	0.5	2.3	0.3	3.1	0.4
1995	2.3	0.2	2.0	0.3	2.2	0.3	2.5	0.3
1994	2.3	0.2	2.7^#	1.3	2.0	0.2	2.5	0.2
1993	2.3	0.2	1.6	0.2	2.1	0.2	2.5	0.3
1992	2.5	0.1	1.0	0.0	2.8	0.4	2.5	0.2
1991	2.4	0.1	1.7	0.2	2.7	0.3	2.5	0.2
Hispanic
2005	3.7	0.2	2.8^#	0.5	3.6	0.3	4.0	0.3
2004	4.0	0.2	3.3^#	0.6	4.4	0.5	3.8	0.3
2003	3.5	0.2	2.1	0.3	3.3	0.3	3.9	0.3
2002	3.9	0.4	3.0	0.4	3.8	0.4	4.2	0.6
2001	4.0	0.3	2.4	0.4	4.3	0.7	4.1	0.4
2000	4.5	0.4	3.3^#	0.6	4.6	0.5	4.7	0.5
1999	4.4	0.3	3.2	0.5	4.0	0.4	5.0	0.6
1998	3.3	0.2	2.4	0.3	3.2	0.2	3.7	0.4
1997	3.2	0.3	5.0^#	2.1	3.0	0.3	2.9	0.2
1996	3.0	0.2	2.7	0.4	2.6	0.3	3.5	0.4
1995	3.0	0.2	3.3	0.5	2.8	0.3	3.1	0.2
1994	3.1	0.3	3.5^#	0.8	2.7	0.3	3.2	0.4
1993	3.6	0.4	3.1^#	1.0	4.3^#	1.0	3.4	0.4
1992	3.4	0.3	3.0	0.3	4.1	0.6	2.8	0.3
1991	3.2	0.2	2.7^#	0.6	3.3	0.3	3.3	0.3
Native American/Alaska Native
2005	5.2	0.6	–	–	4.5^#	1.6	5.8	0.4
2004	7.5^#	1.4	–	–	4.8^#	1.1	9.4^#	2.3
2003	6.1^#	1.1	–	–	6.0^#	1.6	6.4^#	1.7
2002	11.2^#	4.1	–	–	18.2^#	9.6	5.4^#	1.1
2001	4.7	0.7	–	–	5.8	0.8	3.4^#	0.6
2000	6.6^#	1.2	–	–	4.4	0.7	9.1^#	2.6
1999	4.9^#	1.0	–	–	–	–	–	–
Asian, Native HI/Other PI
2005	2.9	0.3	–	–	2.9^#	0.7	3.0	0.3
2004	3.1	0.4	3.0^#	1.3	3.5^#	0.8	3.0	0.5
2003	3.1	0.4	–	–	2.2^#	0.5	3.6	0.6
2002	4.0	0.6	–	–	4.6^#	1.9	3.7	0.6
2001	2.8	0.3	–	–	2.4^#	0.5	3.0	0.4
2000	4.3^#	1.0	–	–	2.8	0.3	5.1^#	1.4
1999	4.3^#	0.9	–	–	6.5^#	3.2	3.5	0.6
More than one race
2005	4.6	0.6	2.2	0.3	5.1^#	1.0	4.8^#	0.9
2004	3.3	0.2	2.0	0.2	3.6	0.5	3.3	0.4
2003	3.8	0.5	4.3^#	2.2	5.4^#	1.1	3.0	0.4
2002	4.1	0.6	–	–	4.6^#	1.5	4.4	0.7
2001	4.2	0.7	–	–	3.6^#	0.9	4.6^#	1.0
2000	6.1^#	1.5	5.9^#	1.5	9.2^#	3.4	3.0	0.4
1999	5.8^#	1.5	–	–	4.7^#	0.9	4.5^#	1.2

Note: Due to survey design modifications, comparisons of results from before 1999 to 1999–2001 and 2002–2005 need to be made with caution.

– Fewer than 10 respondents in this cell.

^# Estimates are unreliable due to relative standard errors > 17.5%.

Source: Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System. Newes-Adeyi, G.; Chen, C.M.; Williams, G.D.; and Faden, V.B. Surveillance Report #81: Trends in Underage Drinking in the United States, 1991–2005. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research (October 2007).