Religion, Acculturation, and Incarceration: Determinants of Substance Use among Hispanic Adults in the United States
Table 1
Characteristics (sample size and weighted percent) of Hispanic adults in study sample ( = 6,119; = 34,808,706), NSDUH 2012.
Lifetime substance use
Substance use in the past year
Substance use in the past month
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
= 14,704,704
= 20,104,003
=5,372,864
=29,435,842
= 2,820,417
= 31,988,289
Age (years
18–34
2320 (52.7)
2156 (47.3)
1226 (24.8)
3250 (75.2)
676 (13.5)
3800 (86.5)
35–49
416 (38.8)
684 (61.2)
109 (11.4)
991 (88.6)
56 (5.1)
1044 (94.9)
50–64
142 (36.5)
241 (63.5)
23 (5.9)
360 (94.1)
14 (3.8)
369 (96.2)
65 or more
20 (14.8)
140 (85.2)
5 (3.7)
155 (96.3)
1 (1.1)
159 (98.9)
Gender
Male
1551 (49.8)
1350 (50.2)
769 (18.2)
2132 (81.8)
443 (9.7)
2458 (90.3)
Female
1347 (34.7)
1871 (65.3)
594 (12.6)
2624 (87.4)
304 (6.5)
2914 (93.5)
Marital statu
Not currently married
2170 (47.9)
1993 (52.1)
1176 (21.8)
2987 (78.2)
663 (12.2)
3500 (87.8)
Currently married
728 (36.2)
1228 (63.8)
187 (8.6)
1769 (91.4)
84 (3.8)
1872 (96.2)
Povert
<100% FPL
819 (34.2)
1140 (65.8)
425 (15.6)
1534 (84.4)
240 (8.7)
1719 (91.3)
100–199% FPL
859 (38.6)
1031 (61.4)
411 (14.6)
1479 (85.4)
222 (7.4)
1668 (92.6)
≥200% FPL
1190 (49.8)
1024 (50.2)
502 (15.5)
1712 (84.5)
269 (8.0)
1945 (92.0)
Educatio
Less than high school
662 (27.4)
1091 (72.6)
315 (11.1)
1438 (88.9)
182 (6.4)
1571 (93.6)
High school graduate
1036 (44.9)
1090 (55.1)
509 (17.4)
1617 (82.6)
278 (9.2)
1848 (90.8)
Some college
878 (54.5)
737 (45.5)
415 (18.9)
1200 (81.1)
230 (9.0)
1385 (91.0)
College graduate
322 (49.3)
303 (50.7)
124 (14.9)
501 (85.1)
57 (8.0)
568 (92.0)
Employment statu
Currently unemployed
873 (33.8)
1191 (66.2)
473 (13.9)
1591 (86.1)
274 (7.9)
1790 (92.1)
Currently employed
2025 (46.5)
2030 (53.5)
890 (16.2)
3165 (83.8)
473 (8.2)
3582 (91.8)
Lifetime major depressive episod
Yes
505 (65.8)
230 (34.2)
264 (27.9)
471 (72.1)
131 (14.3)
604 (85.7)
No
2372 (39.5)
2959 (60.5)
1087 (14.0)
4244 (86.0)
608 (7.4)
4723 (92.6)
Religious beliefs influence lif
Strongly disagree/disagree
1129 (52.6)
857 (47.4)
640 (23.1)
1346 (76.9)
369 (13.2)
1617 (86.8)
Strongly agree/agree
1732 (38.7)
2290 (61.3)
704 (12.6)
3318 (87.4)
366 (6.2)
3656 (93.8)
Language of intervie
English
2578 (53.9)
2115 (46.1)
1266 (20.4)
3427 (79.6)
708 (10.9)
3985 (89.1)
Spanish
320 (17.5)
1106 (82.5)
97 (4.9)
1329 (95.1)
39 (2.1)
1387 (97.9)
Incarceratio
Never booked/arrested
2075 (35.5)
2956 (64.5)
942 (12.0)
4089 (88.0)
478 (5.7)
4553 (94.3)
Ever booked/arrested
816 (78.2)
252 (21.8)
419 (33.1)
649 (66.9)
268 (21.3)
800 (78.7)
FPL: federal poverty level; : sample size; : population estimate.
aLifetime substance use < 0.05;bpast year substance use < 0.05; cpast month substance use < 0.05.
