Percent reporting alcohol use in the past month 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	17.6	60.5	61.4*	52.1*	51.0
2001	17.3	58.8	59.9*	48.7*	48.3
2000	16.4	56.8	58.3*	46.8*	46.6
1999	16.5	57.2	57.4*	46.6*	46.4
1998	19.1	60.0	60.9	53.1	51.7
1997	20.5	58.4	60.2	52.8	51.4
1996	18.8	60.0	61.6	51.7	51.0
1995	21.1	61.3	63.0	52.6	52.2
1994	21.6	63.1	65.3	54.1	53.9

Sex
Male
2002	17.4	65.2	69.3*	60.0*	57.4
2001	17.2	64.7	68.6*	56.1*	54.8
2000	16.2	62.5	67.0*	55.3*	53.6
1999	16.7	63.9	67.0*	54.0*	53.2
1998	19.4	68.2	67.7	61.4	58.7
1997	21.0	65.9	67.9	60.6	58.2
1996	19.2	66.5	70.0	61.6	58.9
1995	22.5	68.2	70.3	62.4	60.1
1994	22.1	70.9	73.9	60.9	60.3
Female
2002	17.9	55.7	53.6*	45.0*	44.9
2001	17.3	53.0	51.6*	42.0*	42.3
2000	16.5	51.3	50.1*	39.2*	40.2
1999	16.3	50.7	48.4*	40.0*	40.2
1998	18.7	51.7	54.2	45.8	45.1
1997	19.9	50.8	52.6	46.0	45.1
1996	18.3	53.5	53.7	43.0	43.6
1995	19.6	54.7	56.0	44.1	45.0
1994	21.1	55.3	57.1	48.1	47.9

Race/Ethnicity[2]
White non-Hispanic
2002	20.1	66.8	66.7*	55.6*	55.0
2001	19.5	64.4	65.5*	52.7*	52.7
2000	18.4	63.3	63.7*	50.3*	50.7
1999	18.2	63.3	62.8*	49.9*	50.3
1998	20.9	65.0	65.2	56.2	55.3
1997	22.0	63.5	64.8	56.1	55.1
1996	20.4	65.5	66.0	54.3	54.2
1995	22.9	66.7	67.5	55.4	55.6
1994	23.9	68.2	68.6	56.2	56.7
Black non-Hispanic
2002	10.9	48.3	56.0*	40.1*	39.9
2001	10.6	46.5	47.5*	34.3*	35.1
2000	8.8	43.9	47.8*	32.8*	33.7
1999	9.7	43.4	44.8*	34.5*	34.3
1998	13.1	50.3	54.8	38.3	39.8
1997	16.3	46.6	51.0	40.9	40.4
1996	14.7	49.6	55.7	42.0	41.9
1995	15.5	47.8	55.0	40.2	40.8
1994	18.2	51.5	59.2	42.4	43.8
Hispanic
2002	16.6	49.8	51.2*	43.9*	42.8
2001	15.1	48.7	48.8*	39.4*	39.5
2000	16.8	44.7	47.7*	36.8*	39.8
1999	16.9	46.7	48.1*	38.2*	38.6
1998	18.9	50.8	53.1	47.7	45.4
1997	18.8	48.5	51.6	42.8	42.4
1996	19.9	49.8	50.6	44.0	43.1
1995	18.7	49.3	53.5	47.8	45.2
1994	18.3	53.6	56.6	50.0	47.7

Population Density
Large Metro
2002	17.1	59.9	63.4*	56.7*	54.0
2001	16.4	59.4	59.9*	52.3*	50.7
2000	16.1	57.1	60.5*	51.6*	50.1
1999	16.3	56.5	58.3*	51.7*	49.6
1998	17.7	58.2	61.2	57.0	53.9
1997	21.4	58.5	62.4	56.6	54.3
1996	18.5	62.4	62.8	55.4	54.0
1995	20.6	62.4	66.8	57.5	56.3
1994	21.2	61.6	66.8	58.0	56.6
Small Metro
2002	17.6	63.2	62.2*	52.7*	51.3
2001	17.9	59.6	61.3*	49.2*	48.9
2000	16.4	58.6	59.1*	45.8*	45.5
1999	16.7	60.1	60.0*	44.6*	45.4
1998	20.0	63.1	61.5	54.6	53.3
1997	20.4	58.7	62.3	53.5	52.0
1996	19.0	59.5	64.9	54.7	53.0
1995	20.1	61.4	62.7	51.7	51.5
1994	22.1	64.8	66.8	54.6	54.4
Nonmetro
2002	19.0	57.1	54.6*	42.5*	42.9
2001	18.2	56.1	57.6*	41.0*	41.9
2000	17.0	53.1	51.4*	39.3*	39.8
1999	17.1	54.3	50.6*	39.5*	40.2
1998	20.1	57.4	59.0	43.4	44.7
1997	19.0	58.0	51.0	45.4	44.9
1996	18.8	56.3	53.7	40.6	42.1
1995	23.0	59.1	54.9	45.3	45.8
1994	21.9	63.7	58.4	45.9	47.6

Region
Northeast
2002	19.0	65.9	NA	NA	56.8
2001	19.2	65.4	NA	NA	52.9
2000	18.3	63.2	NA	NA	52.4
1999	17.9	62.3	NA	NA	50.7
1998	22.1	64.3	62.4	57.7	55.8
1997	19.3	59.9	60.3	56.7	54.0
1996	17.5	63.5	62.4	56.9	55.0
1995	21.2	67.9	64.1	53.4	54.0
1994	19.9	61.1	70.2	56.9	56.3
Midwest
2002	19.2	66.3	NA	NA	53.6
2001	18.3	63.5	NA	NA	52.1
2000	17.0	62.7	NA	NA	49.7
1999	17.5	62.7	NA	NA	49.4
1998	20.6	72.1	67.9	58.7	57.8
1997	23.4	68.0	66.6	55.3	55.6
1996	19.6	67.9	66.5	54.7	54.4
1995	24.1	65.4	68.1	61.2	58.6
1994	22.5	65.8	67.5	57.3	56.2
South
2002	16.9	57.1	NA	NA	45.8
2001	16.5	54.1	NA	NA	42.9
2000	15.6	53.2	NA	NA	40.9
1999	15.3	53.0	NA	NA	41.1
1998	17.5	54.4	58.3	45.6	45.8
1997	19.3	55.1	57.9	47.7	47.4
1996	19.3	58.3	58.9	46.5	47.1
1995	19.6	59.2	59.5	45.1	46.7
1994	21.4	62.5	61.6	47.9	49.6
West
2002	16.1	55.7	NA	NA	51.4
2001	15.9	56.5	NA	NA	49.0
2000	15.3	51.6	NA	NA	47.6
1999	16.5	54.3	NA	NA	48.3
1998	17.4	53.0	56.5	55.0	50.9
1997	20.3	53.3	56.8	55.7	51.7
1996	17.8	52.3	60.1	52.0	49.8
1995	19.8	55.8	62.1	55.3	52.6
1994	22.4	63.1	64.7	58.0	56.0

Adult Education[3]
Less than high school
2002	NA	48.2	48.3*	32.6*	37.8
2001	NA	46.0	46.6*	28.5*	33.4
2000	NA	44.3	44.1*	29.8*	33.9
1999	NA	44.8	49.0*	28.2*	33.3
1998	NA	50.8	51.5	36.0	40.4
1997	NA	52.4	48.7	32.7	38.0
1996	NA	53.3	51.3	33.3	39.1
1995	NA	53.1	55.3	36.1	41.5
1994	NA	52.1	57.0	39.1	43.6
High school graduate
2002	NA	55.9	59.8*	48.7*	51.5
2001	NA	54.4	54.4*	45.1*	48.0
2000	NA	52.2	55.0*	42.0*	45.6
1999	NA	52.8	51.3*	43.6*	46.2
1998	NA	57.6	59.0	49.4	52.3
1997	NA	56.7	56.9	52.7	54.0
1996	NA	56.3	60.9	52.1	54.2
1995	NA	57.9	61.0	48.9	52.4
1994	NA	57.9	62.8	51.6	54.8
Some college
2002	NA	68.0	63.6*	55.0*	58.8
2001	NA	64.4	59.7*	52.8*	56.2
2000	NA	64.0	58.6*	51.0*	55.1
1999	NA	64.2	59.8*	52.1*	55.8
1998	NA	64.6	64.0	57.3	60.1
1997	NA	61.3	61.6	56.0	58.2
1996	NA	62.2	60.8	54.8	57.4
1995	NA	64.5	62.0	58.3	60.4
1994	NA	68.9	66.0	58.4	62.0
College graduate
2002	NA	76.0	67.8*	66.3*	67.4
2001	NA	77.4	70.0*	62.6*	65.2
2000	NA	74.4	67.0*	61.6*	63.2
1999	NA	73.9	65.0*	60.7*	62.6
1998	NA	70.5	64.3	65.5	65.5
1997	NA	67.4	68.9	65.9	66.6
1996	NA	75.1	68.7	64.1	66.1
1995	NA	74.1	70.6	66.3	67.9
1994	NA	80.4	72.0	66.9	69.2

Current Employment[4]
Full-time
2002	NA	66.4	65.8*	59.8*	61.8
2001	NA	63.8	64.4*	56.8*	59.3
2000	NA	62.0	62.5*	54.7*	57.3
1999	NA	61.8	61.3*	53.9*	56.6
1998	NA	66.6	64.4	60.9	62.5
1997	NA	65.3	64.0	60.4	61.9
1996	NA	67.5	67.2	59.9	62.7
1995	NA	69.2	67.5	62.0	64.3
1994	NA	70.4	70.5	62.4	65.6
Part-time
2002	NA	59.1	55.3*	58.7*	58.6
2001	NA	58.6	53.8*	51.5*	54.0
2000	NA	56.0	51.6*	49.2*	51.2
1999	NA	57.3	52.4*	51.2*	53.1
1998	NA	56.0	59.9	59.1	58.4
1997	NA	51.5	59.9	58.4	56.6
1996	NA	57.9	56.8	52.2	54.7
1995	NA	56.4	55.9	57.2	56.8
1994	NA	61.0	60.1	67.9	64.9
Unemployed
2002	NA	56.7	61.8*	56.5*	57.9
2001	NA	58.2	58.8*	44.6*	52.5
2000	NA	53.7	53.4*	44.1*	52.6
1999	NA	50.8	56.0*	53.0*	52.1
1998	NA	63.3	54.5	59.8	59.7
1997	NA	55.8	55.7	61.7	58.8
1996	NA	60.9	58.7	58.3	59.1
1995	NA	59.6	62.7	64.8	62.8
1994	NA	55.5	65.2	57.7	59.0
Other[5]
2002	NA	49.9	44.1*	37.2*	39.0
2001	NA	46.1	41.2*	34.8*	36.2
2000	NA	45.1	39.8*	33.2*	35.0
1999	NA	46.5	39.7*	33.3*	35.1
1998	NA	49.4	45.3	40.6	41.9
1997	NA	51.3	44.6	40.8	42.1
1996	NA	45.5	41.9	41.1	41.6
1995	NA	50.2	48.5	38.6	40.8
1994	NA	53.4	46.0	39.3	41.5

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.