Alcohol policy enforcement and changes in student drinking rates in a statewide public college system: a follow-up study

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the Massachusetts public college and university student samples, 1999 and 2001.

	*1999 sample* *(N = 1,252)*		*2001 sample* *(N = 1,074)*		*Chi-square* *statistic (df)*
*Characteristic*	n	%	n	%	*p-value* ^c
Gender
Male	511	40.9	417	39.0	0.85 (1)
Female	737	59.1	651	61.0	.510
Race/Ethnicity
White non-Hispanic	1071	88.4	929	87.4	6.1 (3)
Black non-Hispanic	34	2.8	28	2.6	.013
Hispanic	62	5.1	34	3.2
Other race/ethnicity	45	3.7	72	6.8
Age
<21 years	638	51.0	502	47.0	0.86 (1)
>=21 years	612	49.0	567	53.0	0.38
Year in School
Freshman	285	22.9	259	24.3	2.94 (5)
Sophomore	310	24.9	225	21.1	.069
Junior	312	25.0	254	23.8
Senior	257	20.6	253	23.7
>=5th year undergraduate	83	6.7	76	7.1
Type of Residence
On-campus	616	49.7	574	53.9	1.37 (1)
Off-campus^a	624	50.3	490	46.1	.269
Fraternity/Sorority Member	50	4.0	30	2.6	4.68 (1) .056
Heavy Drinking in High School^b
No	729	58.8	581	54.7	5.31 (1)
Yes	510	41.2	481	45.3	.044

a Includes off-campus house or apartment, fraternity or sorority house, and other.
b Ever having >=5 drinks in a row (or >=4 for females) during last year of high school.
c Chi-square p-value estimates generated using SUDAAN^® 9.0 software to account for sampling design effects.

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