Association between Acculturation and Binge Drinking among Asian-Americans: Results from the California Health Interview Survey

Table 1

Sociodemographic and other characteristics of AsianAmerican binge drinkers versus nonbinge drinkers by subgroup.

(a)

	Chinese		Filipino		South Asian
	Binge	Nonbinge	Binge	Nonbinge	Binge	Nonbinge
Total sample size (𝑛)	311	3265	310	1328	163	1189
Average annual population estimate of binge drinkers (𝑁)	130,357	921,453	246,050	654,662	83,462	384,216
Mean age (95% CI)	32.89 (31.12, 34.66)	45.70 (44.84, 46.57)	34.24 (32.20, 36.27)	46.40 (45.27, 47.54)	32.17 (29.94, 34.41)	39.40 (38.44, 40.37)
Female (%)	32.91	56.26	38.98	60.54	32.18	46.09
Currently married (%)	36.76	63.09	42.42	62.00	36.74	74.07
Bachelor’s degree or higher (%)	62.11	55.25	39.53	55.30	81.40	76.01
Less than 200% FPL (%)	21.14	31.71	18.68	26.46	11.38	18.07
Language spoken at home (%)
Non-English only	38.99	44.54	3.71	13.00	5.69	14.37
English and another	42.49	39.46	47.90	52.60	65.16	71.47
English only	18.51	16.00	48.39	34.40	29.15	14.15
Generation level (%)
Zero	60.92	77.24	49.07	75.44	57.97	88.72
First	31.58	17.31	36.97	17.96	41.17	9.83
Second or more	7.49	5.45	13.96	6.60	0.86	1.44
Ever smoker (%)	30.38	16.38	48.58	23.94	23.14	12.60
Poor health status (%)	36.99	44.03	17.04	24.17	40.59	37.37

(b)

	Japanese		Korean		Vietnamese		𝑃 value
	Binge	Nonbinge	Binge	Nonbinge	Binge	Nonbinge	Binge	Nonbinge
Total sample size (𝑛)	151	1024	391	1907	305	2495
Average annual population estimate of binge drinkers (𝑁)	42,899	179,492	90,729	249,920	71,700	352,484
Mean age (95% CI)	41.51; (37.94, 45.09)	57.26; (55.45, 59.08)	36.46; (33.66, 39.26)	46.07; (44.39, 47.75)	32.91; (29.55, 36.27)	45.01; (43.80, 46.22)	0.0002	<.0001
Female (%)	49.98	60.42	51.25	68.95	38.21	53.34	0.1578	<.0001
Currently married (%)	48.11	65.75	47.76	59.50	33.95	64.60	0.3804	.0005
Bachelor’s degree or higher (%)	59.77	51.64	55.55	57.33	43.95	28.93	<.0001	<.0001
Less than 200% FPL (%)	16.02	13.29	22.10	35.90	34.86	56.18	0.0205	<.0001
Language spoken at home (%)							<.0001	<.0001
Non-English only	6.54	3.83	36.60	52.06	16.75	52.35
English and another	28.98	25.12	46.36	37.24	73.81	40.40
English only	64.48	71.05	17.04	10.70	9.43	7.25
Generation level (%)							<.0001	<.0001
Zero	32.58	25.72	67.21	81.13	53.01	90.04
First	7.77	20.28	31.59	17.00	46.67	9.54
Second or more	59.65	53.99	1.20	1.87	0.32	0.42
Ever smoker (%)	47.31	30.47	50.74	27.39	52.94	24.36	<.0001	<.0001
Poor health status (%)	33.49	23.98	43.89	42.83	51.48	43.33	<.0001	<.0001

CI: confidence interval; FPL: federal poverty level.