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

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Demographic characteristic	Age Group (Years)
Demographic characteristic	12–17	18–25	26–34	35+	Total
Total
2002	34.6	77.9	77.7*	66.1*	66.1
2001	33.9	75.4	76.5*	63.1*	63.7
2000	33.0	74.5	75.1*	61.0*	61.9
1999	34.1	74.8	74.9*	61.3*	62.3
1998	31.8	74.2	74.5	64.6	64.0
1997	34.0	75.1	74.6	64.1	64.1
1996	32.7	75.3	77.2	64.9	64.9
1995	35.1	76.5	77.0	65.0	65.4
1994	36.2	78.5	78.8	66.2	66.9

Sex
Male
2002	33.3	80.1	83.0*	72.3*	70.7
2001	33.0	78.3	81.9*	68.3*	67.7
2000	32.1	77.2	80.2*	68.7*	67.2
1999	33.6	78.4	80.4*	66.1*	66.4
1998	31.0	79.3	77.7	70.2	68.3
1997	32.7	78.9	80.4	69.8	68.7
1996	32.0	78.6	81.5	72.0	70.0
1995	35.3	80.4	80.8	71.1	70.0
1994	36.2	82.3	83.7	72.5	71.8
Female
2002	36.0	75.6	72.6*	60.5*	61.8
2001	34.9	72.6	71.4*	58.4*	59.9
2000	34.0	71.8	70.3*	54.2*	56.9
1999	34.7	71.3	69.7*	57.0*	58.5
1998	32.7	68.9	71.5	59.7	60.0
1997	35.3	71.2	69.0	59.0	59.8
1996	33.5	72.0	73.1	58.6	60.2
1995	34.8	72.7	73.3	59.6	61.1
1994	36.1	74.8	74.0	60.7	62.4

Race/Ethnicity[2]
White non-Hispanic
2002	37.9	83.1	82.6*	69.3*	69.8
2001	37.3	80.8	81.5*	67.4*	68.1
2000	36.3	80.1	80.8*	64.7*	66.0
1999	36.7	80.3	80.4*	64.9*	66.2
1998	35.1	79.0	79.0	68.0	67.8
1997	36.0	81.0	80.2	67.2	67.8
1996	34.4	80.5	81.9	67.4	68.0
1995	38.1	81.4	81.3	67.9	68.8
1994	39.6	84.0	82.3	68.3	69.8
Black non-Hispanic
2002	24.7	69.2	71.0*	53.6*	54.9
2001	22.9	63.9	65.9*	47.8*	49.9
2000	21.2	62.5	62.3*	46.6*	48.5
1999	23.8	62.7	62.5*	47.9*	49.6
1998	22.3	64.2	66.0	48.1	50.4
1997	27.3	62.9	64.0	52.2	52.7
1996	26.6	63.9	69.6	50.9	52.9
1995	25.8	65.0	67.4	53.0	53.8
1994	27.9	67.2	70.2	54.2	55.8
Hispanic
2002	34.0	68.7	68.8*	60.1*	60.0
2001	32.2	65.0	66.9*	53.6*	55.2
2000	32.4	63.9	64.8*	55.1*	54.9
1999	35.2	65.3	66.3*	52.4*	54.9
1998	29.4	66.2	66.2	60.7	58.5
1997	32.5	63.2	63.0	56.2	55.6
1996	34.6	66.0	66.8	59.0	58.6
1995	32.2	64.4	68.5	58.1	57.9
1994	33.0	68.3	71.6	65.8	63.0

Population Density
Large Metro
2002	34.1	77.3	79.1*	69.9*	68.8
2001	32.9	75.1	76.7*	66.0*	65.7
2000	32.6	73.8	75.9*	66.0*	65.1
1999	33.2	73.9	74.3*	66.2*	64.9
1998	29.9	71.7	75.3	68.4	66.1
1997	34.9	74.7	75.0	67.6	66.5
1996	32.4	75.8	78.0	68.3	67.5
1995	33.8	76.7	79.5	69.3	68.7
1994	34.4	75.5	79.6	70.6	69.5
Small Metro
2002	34.7	79.9	77.1*	67.3*	66.5
2001	34.4	77.1	78.1*	65.2*	64.8
2000	33.3	76.2	77.0*	60.2*	61.1
1999	34.6	76.7	77.7*	60.8*	62.2
1998	33.4	77.2	74.3	65.9	65.4
1997	35.5	74.4	77.4	65.9	65.6
1996	32.2	75.3	79.6	67.3	66.4
1995	36.1	77.0	77.6	64.5	65.4
1994	38.5	82.3	80.5	66.9	68.1
Nonmetro
2002	35.8	75.6	75.1*	57.2*	58.9
2001	35.4	73.4	73.5*	54.6*	57.3
2000	33.8	73.2	69.9*	53.0*	55.3
1999	35.9	73.7	71.6*	52.5*	55.8
1998	32.8	73.0	73.0	55.5	57.6
1997	30.0	76.8	68.9	55.2	57.1
1996	34.1	74.2	71.5	54.9	57.5
1995	35.7	75.4	70.4	57.8	59.2
1994	35.8	79.6	73.1	56.8	60.1

Region
Northeast
2002	37.5	83.0	NA	NA	71.4
2001	37.1	81.2	NA	NA	68.5
2000	36.2	79.4	NA	NA	68.3
1999	36.1	80.0	NA	NA	66.9
1998	33.8	78.0	77.1	71.9	69.8
1997	31.6	76.6	73.6	68.8	66.9
1996	32.1	78.8	78.4	70.9	69.5
1995	37.4	83.0	80.1	70.2	70.4
1994	36.4	77.8	82.1	72.0	71.2
Midwest
2002	36.7	83.0	NA	NA	69.0
2001	35.3	79.9	NA	NA	67.4
2000	34.4	80.5	NA	NA	65.1
1999	35.5	80.1	NA	NA	66.2
1998	35.7	84.5	82.1	70.5	70.4
1997	38.4	85.3	83.7	67.9	69.8
1996	35.4	82.9	82.1	72.9	71.4
1995	38.8	81.9	80.7	72.7	71.3
1994	38.8	83.1	82.4	68.1	69.1
South
2002	33.6	75.1	NA	NA	61.1
2001	32.8	72.1	NA	NA	58.7
2000	31.5	71.8	NA	NA	56.1
1999	32.0	71.4	NA	NA	56.4
1998	29.5	69.3	70.9	56.0	57.3
1997	32.5	72.6	71.6	57.5	59.2
1996	31.1	73.8	75.6	56.8	59.3
1995	31.3	74.8	73.2	56.0	58.7
1994	34.3	76.8	75.0	59.0	61.7
West
2002	31.8	73.1	NA	NA	66.6
2001	31.6	71.9	NA	NA	63.6
2000	31.6	68.5	NA	NA	62.2
1999	34.5	70.5	NA	NA	63.6
1998	29.7	68.1	70.5	65.7	62.9
1997	33.7	–	70.4	67.3	64.2
1996	32.7	67.4	73.5	63.2	62.4
1995	34.7	69.2	76.1	66.3	64.9
1994	36.0	77.6	78.0	70.4	69.1

Adult Education[3]
Less than high school
2002	NA	68.5	66.2*	45.3*	52.4
2001	NA	65.9	65.1*	39.9*	47.0
2000	NA	64.1	61.6*	41.0*	46.7
1999	NA	63.1	67.9*	37.8*	45.4
1998	NA	67.0	67.9	46.9	52.8
1997	NA	68.1	62.2	42.9	49.5
1996	NA	69.0	68.2	43.3	50.9
1995	NA	70.5	70.5	46.4	53.7
1994	NA	67.2	70.9	48.0	54.1
High school graduate
2002	NA	75.2	76.3*	64.0*	67.6
2001	NA	72.1	72.1*	60.5*	64.4
2000	NA	72.4	72.8*	57.6*	62.3
1999	NA	72.8	70.0*	59.7*	63.3
1998	NA	72.2	72.0	62.3	65.5
1997	NA	73.8	72.8	64.4	67.3
1996	NA	73.8	76.5	65.8	68.8
1995	NA	73.9	75.4	62.2	66.3
1994	NA	75.9	78.6	65.8	69.9
Some college
2002	NA	83.5	80.6*	70.1*	74.9
2001	NA	80.3	77.9*	68.8*	72.6
2000	NA	79.6	76.8*	65.4*	70.6
1999	NA	80.1	78.0*	69.4*	72.9
1998	NA	77.2	78.2	70.0	73.0
1997	NA	78.5	76.2	69.9	72.8
1996	NA	77.5	78.7	72.2	74.5
1995	NA	79.3	77.5	72.4	74.9
1994	NA	83.7	79.0	70.5	74.8
College graduate
2002	NA	87.5	82.5*	78.5*	80.1
2001	NA	87.5	83.8*	76.6*	78.7
2000	NA	85.7	81.4*	75.9*	77.5
1999	NA	87.1	80.1*	75.2*	77.1
1998	NA	84.0	76.8	74.9	75.9
1997	NA	82.7	81.8	75.1	77.0
1996	NA	–	81.5	75.4	77.5
1995	NA	84.9	82.0	77.5	79.1
1994	NA	90.8	82.8	79.2	81.0

Current Employment[4]
Full-time
2002	NA	82.6	81.4*	74.3*	77.0
2001	NA	79.9	80.0*	72.2*	74.7
2000	NA	78.6	78.5*	70.3*	73.1
1999	NA	79.5	78.4*	70.1*	73.2
1998	NA	79.2	77.3	72.3	74.4
1997	NA	81.7	78.6	72.4	75.1
1996	NA	81.2	81.1	73.9	76.6
1995	NA	82.5	80.8	74.0	76.8
1994	NA	84.6	82.4	76.8	79.3
Part-time
2002	NA	77.1	75.2*	71.7*	73.3
2001	NA	75.2	75.6*	66.7*	71.0
2000	NA	74.6	71.2*	62.7*	67.2
1999	NA	74.4	72.9*	68.6*	70.9
1998	NA	72.7	75.6	71.6	72.5
1997	NA	71.4	70.4	69.4	70.2
1996	NA	75.1	74.9	67.0	70.7
1995	NA	74.3	72.7	71.8	72.7
1994	NA	77.3	73.7	76.8	76.4
Unemployed
2002	NA	77.3	79.9*	72.4*	75.0
2001	NA	73.4	79.5*	63.4*	70.5
2000	NA	74.4	69.4*	65.0*	72.3
1999	NA	68.7	69.0*	66.9*	67.4
1998	NA	77.2	69.6	76.1	75.1
1997	NA	68.8	72.2	71.2	70.8
1996	NA	75.3	71.6	75.2	74.4
1995	NA	74.1	75.0	69.6	72.2
1994	NA	74.0	83.0	73.1	75.9
Other[5]
2002	NA	68.0	60.2*	50.4*	53.3
2001	NA	64.5	58.4*	47.2*	49.9
2000	NA	63.1	59.3*	45.1*	48.1
1999	NA	64.2	58.1*	44.8*	47.6
1998	NA	64.3	61.0	51.7	53.8
1997	NA	66.5	60.3	51.2	53.5
1996	NA	62.5	63.7	52.5	54.5
1995	NA	67.0	64.4	51.4	54.2
1994	NA	69.6	64.2	49.3	53.0

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.

– Low precision; no estimate reported.

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

NA Not applicable/not available.

[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.