Percent reporting alcohol use in lifetime by age group and demographic characteristics: NSDUH (NHSDA), 1994

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Percent reporting alcohol use in lifetime by age group and demographic characteristics: NSDUH (NHSDA), 1994–2002[1].
Demographic characteristic	Age Group (Years)
Demographic characteristic	12–17	18–25	26–34	35+	Total
Total
2002	43.4	86.7	90.2*	87.3*	83.1
2001	42.7	85.0	89.0*	85.7*	81.7
2000	41.7	84.0	89.2*	85.0*	81.0
1999	42.9	83.9	89.2*	85.3*	81.3
1998	37.3	83.2	88.2	86.6	81.3
1997	39.7	83.5	88.9	87.0	81.9
1996	38.8	83.8	90.3	87.8	82.6
1995	40.6	84.4	90.1	87.1	82.3
1994	41.7	86.3	91.8	89.0	84.2

Sex
Male
2002	43.4	88.0	93.1*	92.2*	86.4
2001	42.8	86.3	92.1*	91.3*	85.4
2000	41.9	85.6	92.1*	91.8*	85.3
1999	43.6	85.5	92.1*	90.5*	84.8
1998	36.6	87.2	90.9	92.2	85.2
1997	38.8	86.0	93.1	93.9	86.6
1996	38.3	86.3	93.8	93.9	86.6
1995	41.6	86.1	92.6	92.2	85.8
1994	42.9	87.9	94.6	95.4	88.4
Female
2002	43.4	85.4	87.4*	82.9*	80.1
2001	43.0	83.7	86.1*	80.7*	78.3
2000	41.5	82.5	86.4*	79.0*	76.9
1999	42.2	82.3	86.5*	80.7*	78.1
1998	38.1	79.2	85.5	81.6	77.6
1997	40.7	81.0	84.7	80.9	77.5
1996	39.4	81.2	87.0	82.5	78.8
1995	39.5	82.7	87.6	82.6	79.2
1994	40.4	84.8	89.1	83.4	80.3

Race/Ethnicity[2]
White non-Hispanic
2002	45.8	90.1	94.5*	90.4*	86.8
2001	45.7	89.0	93.6*	89.6*	86.0
2000	44.3	88.2	93.9*	88.3*	84.9
1999	44.8	88.2	94.1*	88.3*	85.1
1998	40.4	87.9	92.8	89.4	85.2
1997	42.5	89.0	93.9	90.0	86.0
1996	40.7	88.9	94.7	90.4	86.2
1995	43.7	88.6	94.1	89.9	86.1
1994	45.3	91.6	95.5	91.1	87.6
Black non-Hispanic
2002	35.9	81.2	87.3*	80.1*	75.3
2001	34.3	76.6	83.1*	77.3*	72.6
2000	32.1	76.2	80.9*	76.2*	71.5
1999	35.6	73.7	79.9*	76.2*	71.5
1998	26.7	74.2	81.9	78.6	71.7
1997	31.4	73.2	80.4	78.3	71.7
1996	32.2	73.5	83.8	79.3	72.8
1995	30.4	75.3	82.4	79.6	72.8
1994	32.9	74.8	83.0	80.8	73.9
Hispanic
2002	44.7	81.2	81.9*	79.9*	75.7
2001	41.3	77.8	79.3*	73.3*	70.9
2000	41.8	76.7	80.2*	76.3*	71.9
1999	44.6	78.0	79.9*	78.9*	74.1
1998	36.4	74.4	78.3	76.2	70.8
1997	36.3	71.5	74.4	75.0	68.9
1996	40.3	73.9	80.6	76.1	71.7
1995	37.6	73.0	80.7	77.2	71.6
1994	39.1	76.7	83.4	84.2	76.2

Population Density
Large Metro
2002	42.7	85.7	89.3*	87.7*	83.5
2001	41.5	84.1	86.9*	85.4*	81.4
2000	41.0	83.1	88.6*	86.3*	81.5
1999	41.9	82.9	87.7*	86.9*	82.2
1998	34.7	80.3	87.9	87.5	81.3
1997	39.8	82.5	87.2	88.5	82.6
1996	38.8	82.8	89.9	89.2	83.6
1995	39.2	83.9	90.0	88.1	83.1
1994	38.7	82.1	91.0	89.8	84.0
Small Metro
2002	43.5	88.1	90.6*	88.8*	83.7
2001	43.6	86.2	91.4*	87.2*	83.1
2000	41.8	85.3	89.6*	84.9*	81.2
1999	43.5	85.1	91.5*	85.8*	81.8
1998	39.4	86.0	88.7	87.7	82.5
1997	41.3	82.5	90.6	88.6	83.1
1996	38.4	84.4	91.1	88.7	83.0
1995	41.9	84.6	91.5	89.6	84.2
1994	44.0	90.8	93.2	91.3	86.4
Nonmetro
2002	45.0	86.5	92.0*	84.5*	81.2
2001	45.0	85.0	90.0*	84.0*	80.4
2000	43.0	84.2	89.9*	82.9*	79.3
1999	44.3	84.6	89.4*	81.4*	78.4
1998	39.0	83.2	88.1	83.1	79.0
1997	37.2	87.0	90.2	81.8	78.8
1996	39.4	84.5	90.1	83.9	80.0
1995	41.0	84.9	88.2	81.9	78.4
1994	43.5	88.5	91.0	83.9	81.2

Region
Northeast
2002	45.8	90.0	NA	NA	85.2
2001	44.6	88.0	NA	NA	83.5
2000	43.8	87.6	NA	NA	83.5
1999	43.2	86.6	NA	NA	83.3
1998	39.4	84.4	89.5	91.2	85.2
1997	36.0	82.7	89.4	90.8	84.5
1996	39.2	85.1	91.3	92.0	86.5
1995	40.9	89.2	90.6	89.8	85.5
1994	42.7	86.2	92.7	91.9	86.6
Midwest
2002	44.8	89.6	NA	NA	85.4
2001	44.5	88.3	NA	NA	84.7
2000	42.4	87.9	NA	NA	83.7
1999	45.0	87.8	NA	NA	83.6
1998	41.4	91.2	92.2	89.8	85.2
1997	44.1	91.3	94.6	89.7	85.9
1996	41.0	89.8	95.1	92.2	86.6
1995	44.8	88.2	93.9	93.3	87.1
1994	43.8	91.6	93.1	90.3	85.8
South
2002	43.1	85.4	NA	NA	81.1
2001	42.1	83.7	NA	NA	80.0
2000	41.0	83.1	NA	NA	78.4
1999	41.0	82.1	NA	NA	78.4
1998	34.5	80.9	87.1	81.7	77.6
1997	38.6	83.0	87.4	83.4	79.3
1996	37.2	82.9	88.8	82.5	78.8
1995	36.3	83.7	87.8	81.5	78.2
1994	39.6	84.3	91.0	85.0	81.3
West
2002	40.8	83.1	NA	NA	82.3
2001	41.0	81.5	NA	NA	79.9
2000	40.3	78.7	NA	NA	80.1
1999	43.2	80.6	NA	NA	81.8
1998	35.9	77.6	84.6	86.6	79.6
1997	40.0	76.7	84.6	86.8	80.1
1996	38.5	78.0	86.8	87.5	80.6
1995	41.8	78.3	89.0	86.9	80.8
1994	41.7	84.7	90.9	91.4	84.9

Adult Education[3]
Less than high school
2002	NA	80.6	81.6*	74.9*	76.5
2001	NA	78.7	78.2*	71.9*	73.7
2000	NA	77.3	79.1*	73.7*	74.7
1999	NA	77.0	82.6*	71.4*	73.6
1998	NA	78.1	80.7	76.9	77.6
1997	NA	78.2	78.8	75.3	76.3
1996	NA	78.3	82.7	75.7	77.2
1995	NA	80.3	85.2	77.8	79.2
1994	NA	77.6	86.8	80.9	81.3
High school graduate
2002	NA	85.5	90.3*	86.9*	87.4
2001	NA	82.8	89.2*	84.9*	85.5
2000	NA	82.6	89.3*	83.7*	84.5
1999	NA	82.4	87.6*	85.4*	85.3
1998	NA	81.0	86.2	85.7	85.0
1997	NA	82.2	87.8	86.7	86.2
1996	NA	82.8	90.7	87.9	87.6
1995	NA	81.5	89.1	86.2	86.0
1994	NA	84.1	91.3	88.3	88.2
Some college
2002	NA	90.2	93.9*	90.8*	91.7
2001	NA	88.5	91.0*	90.5*	90.4
2000	NA	87.8	90.5*	88.8*	89.3
1999	NA	87.2	92.8*	91.8*	91.0
1998	NA	86.0	93.1	90.4	90.0
1997	NA	86.1	91.7	91.3	90.3
1996	NA	86.2	93.0	92.6	91.4
1995	NA	87.1	92.1	93.0	91.6
1994	NA	90.8	92.9	93.1	92.6
College graduate
2002	NA	91.9	91.4*	92.7*	92.4
2001	NA	92.3	91.3*	91.7*	91.6
2000	NA	90.3	92.1*	91.4*	91.2
1999	NA	91.8	90.7*	90.4*	90.6
1998	NA	90.8	88.9	91.0	90.6
1997	NA	90.6	92.8	92.8	92.6
1996	NA	89.4	91.8	93.8	93.0
1995	NA	90.8	92.1	91.1	91.3
1994	NA	95.0	94.1	93.4	93.7

Current Employment[4]
Full-time
2002	NA	90.2	92.5*	91.7*	91.8
2001	NA	88.6	91.0*	91.1*	90.7
2000	NA	88.1	91.3*	89.7*	89.9
1999	NA	87.6	91.3*	89.8*	89.8
1998	NA	87.8	90.8	90.5	90.3
1997	NA	89.6	91.0	91.5	91.1
1996	NA	88.2	92.7	92.5	92.0
1995	NA	89.4	92.3	91.8	91.6
1994	NA	91.0	93.7	93.4	93.1
Part-time
2002	NA	85.6	90.1*	90.2*	89.2
2001	NA	83.9	90.1*	87.4*	87.4
2000	NA	82.2	87.7*	86.3*	84.8
1999	NA	82.5	87.7*	87.3*	86.1
1998	NA	79.3	88.4	88.2	85.9
1997	NA	80.3	90.0	90.7	87.5
1996	NA	83.7	89.5	88.8	87.4
1995	NA	80.8	86.4	86.5	84.9
1994	NA	86.1	91.1	93.7	91.3
Unemployed
2002	NA	87.3	89.2*	87.6*	87.5
2001	NA	82.4	90.3*	81.2*	84.0
2000	NA	81.6	85.9*	89.0*	87.9
1999	NA	78.6	83.6*	86.4*	82.9
1998	NA	84.2	84.3	90.8	87.6
1997	NA	74.0	87.0	90.3	85.1
1996	NA	83.1	86.4	92.1	88.4
1995	NA	83.0	91.8	–	89.2
1994	NA	80.5	92.6	88.0	87.0
Other[5]
2002	NA	79.4	79.0*	79.1*	79.3
2001	NA	77.6	77.7*	76.7*	77.0
2000	NA	75.2	78.3*	76.7*	76.8
1999	NA	77.3	80.2*	77.5*	77.6
1998	NA	77.1	75.1	80.5	79.7
1997	NA	77.0	79.2	79.9	79.6
1996	NA	74.2	81.8	81.5	80.9
1995	NA	77.8	81.9	80.8	80.6
1994	NA	79.4	83.6	82.2	82.0

Sources:

SAMHSA/OAS, Results from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings. DHHS Pub. (SMA) 03-3836, 2003.

SAMHSA/OAS, Summary of Findings from the 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Volume II. Technical Appendices and Selected Data Tables. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA) 02-3759, 2002.

SAMHSA/OAS, Summary of Findings from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA) 01-3549, 2001.

SAMHSA/OAS, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Main Findings 1997. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA)99-3295, 1999.

SAMHSA/OAS, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Main Findings 1996. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA)98-3200, 1998.

SAMHSA/OAS, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Main Findings 1995. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA)97-3127, 1997.

SAMHSA/OAS, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Main Findings 1994. DHHS Pub. No. (SMA)96-3085, 1996.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Johnson, L.D., O'Malley, P.M., and Bachman, J.G. (2002), University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Monitoring the Future National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings, 2002. Bethesda, MD: NIDA, NIH, Publication No. 02-5105.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Johnson, L.D., O'Malley, P.M., and Bachman, J.G. (2003), University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Monitoring the Future National Results on Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings, 2003. Bethesda, MD: NIDA, NIH, Publication No. 03-5374.

– Low precision; no estimate reported.

NA Not applicable/not available.

* Estimated by Alcohol Epidemiologic Data System from public-use data.

[1] Due to survey methodology changes in 1999, comparisons to results prior to 1999 must be limited. The survey's name was changed from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) in 2002. Each NSDUH respondent beginning in 2002 is given an incentive payment of $30, resulting in a substantial improvement in the survey response rate.

[2] Categories for other racial/ethnic groups and non-Hispanic more than one race (introduced since 1999) are not included.

[3] Data on adult education are not applicable for youth age 12–17. Total refers to adults age 18 and older.

[4] Data on current employment are not applicable for youth age 12–17. Total refers to adults age 18 and older.

[5] Retired, disabled, homemaker, student, or other.