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Table 1 Prevalence and Population Estimates of DSM-III-R Alcohol Abuse and Dependence by Age, Ses, and Ethnicity: 

 United States, 1988 (continued) 



Alcohol Dependence with Abuse 



Total Alcohol Dependence and Abuse 



Ethnicity /Sex'Age 



White Males 

 1&-29 

 30--t4 

 45-64 

 65 and Older 



I Nonwhite Males 

 i 18-29 

 i 30-44 



45-64 



65 and Older 

 I 

 i Total Males 



18-29 



30-^*4 



45-64 



65 and Older 



White Females 

 18-29 

 30-44 

 45-«4 

 65 and Older 



Nonwhite Females 

 18-29 

 30-44 

 45-64 

 65 and Older 



Total Females 

 18-29 

 30^»4 

 45-64 

 65 and Older 



; Total 



18-29 

 30-44 

 45-64 

 65 and Older 



Prevalence 

 (%) 



7.63 

 14.74 

 8.06 

 3.61 

 1.22 



4.65 

 5.27 

 5.16 

 3.87 

 2.67 



7.22 

 13.14 

 7.65 

 3.64 

 1.36 



2.20 

 5.35 

 2.17 

 0.69 

 0.17 



1.10 

 1.73 

 1.21 

 0.71 

 0.00 



2.04 

 4.71 

 2.02 

 0.70 

 0.15 



4.50 

 8.83 

 4.78 

 2.10 

 0.65 



S.E. 



(0.24) 

 (0.67) 

 (0.40) 

 (0.32) 

 (0.24) 



(0.52) 

 (0.93) 

 (0.9S) 

 (0.93) 

 (1.24) 



(0.22) 

 (0.59) 

 (0.37) 

 (0.30) 

 (0.25) 



(0.11) 

 (0.35) 

 (0.20) 

 (0.13) 

 (0.08) 



(0.18) 

 (0.37) 

 (0.34) 

 (0.32) 

 (0.00) 



(0.10) 

 (0.30) 

 (0.18) 

 (0.12) 

 (0.07) 



(0.12) 

 (0.33) 

 (0.21) 

 (0.16) 

 (0.11) 



S.E. 



(0.34) 

 (0.91) 

 (0.54) 

 (0.42) 

 (0.35) 



(0.69) 

 (1.26) 

 (1.19) 

 (1.31) 

 (1.27) 



(0.31) 

 (0.78) 

 (0.49) 

 (0.40) 

 (0.34) 



(0.17) 

 (0.53) 

 (0.27) 

 (0.22) 

 (0.10) 



(0.26) 

 (0.55) 

 (0.46) 

 (0.39) 

 (0.33) 



(0.15) 

 (0.45) 

 (0.24) 

 (0.19) 

 (0.10) 



(0.18) 

 (0.46) 

 (0.29) 

 (0.22) 

 (0.15) 



Population 

 Estimate 



10,176 



4,S87 



3,514 



1,373 



293 



1,065 



407 



417 



204 



37 



11,232 



5,394 



3.931 



1.577 



330 



3.722 



2,260 



1,047 



363 



52 



342 

 164 

 118 



49 



10 



4,064 



2,424 



1.165 



412 



62 



15.295 



7,818 



5,096 



1,989 



392 



'AN population e£lln>ates ara m thousands. 



Note: Components may not always sum to the totals displ3y«d In 1h« tatila Iwcause ol (wjndlng. 



lem ihai is caused or exacerbated by alco- 

 hol use — or by recurrent use in physical- 

 ly hazardous situations. A diagnosis of 

 alcohol dependence requires that an indi- 

 vidual meet at least three of the nine cri- 

 tena defined for dependence (see 

 sidebar)- 



To be classified as an alcohol abuser, 

 a respondent must have expenenced one 

 or more symptoms in at least one symp- 



tom group during the preceding year. To 

 satisfy the DSM-III-R duration cntenon 

 for abuse — that is, that some symptoms 

 of abuse persisted for at least 1 month or 

 occurred repeatedly over a longer period 

 of time — at least one symptom of abuse 

 must have occurred two or more times 

 during the preceding year. Similarly, to 

 be classified as alcohol dependent, a re- 

 spondent must have expenenced one or 



more symptoms for at least three depen- 

 dence criteria, and one or more of the 

 symptoms of at least two of these criteria 

 must have occurred two or more times 

 during the preceding year. 



The diagnosis of dependence present- 

 ed in this report was further qualified in 

 two ways. First, since the withdrawal cn- 

 tenon of alcohol dependence is defined 

 in DSM-III-R as a withdrawal state or 



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