Table 2, Prevalence of driving or riding with drivers under the influence of alcohol - Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Motor Vehicle Occupant Injuries

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Table 2Prevalence of driving or riding with drivers under the influence of alcohol

Reference	Survey; Method of Assessment	Behavior/how measured	Population	Result	Year of sampling	Comments
Quinlan et al. 2005 ³³	Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; Random-digit telephone survey of US adults in all 50 states	% who responded greater than one to question, “During the past month, how many times have you driven when you've had perhaps too much to drink?”	Adults ages 18 and older	2.3	2002
			Male	3.6
			Female	1.1
			Age 18–20	3.0
			21–34	4.1
			Reported binge drinkers	12.3
			Reported heavy alcohol intake	14.5
US Dept of Transportation, NHTSA 2003 ³⁴	National Survey of Drinking and Driving Attitudes and Behaviors; Telephone interviews with nationally representative sample (n=6,002) of persons age 16 or older in the US	% who responded yes to having driven a motor vehicle within two hours of consuming alcoholic beverages in the past year	Drivers ages 16 or older	22	2001	Problem drinkers made up 27% of those who reported drinking and driving (estimated 11% of entire sampled population)
		% who responded yes to having ridden with someone in the past year who they thought may have had too much alcohol to drive safely.	Male	32
			Female	14
			Age 21–29	37(males)
				20 (females)
			Persons age 16 – 64	12
Grunbaum et al, 2004 ³⁵	Youth Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; self-administered questionnaires of nationally representative sample 9–12 grade students in private and public schools	% who reported they rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol during the preceding 30 days.	All 9–12 grade students	30.2	2003
		% who reported they drove after drinking alcohol during the preceding 30 days		Female/Male
			White	29.8/27.3
			Black	29.8/31.8
			Hispanic	40.0/32.8
			Any race/ethnicity	31.1/29.2
			All 9–12 grade students	12.1
				Female/Male
			White	10.3/15.2
			Black	4.6/13.4
			Hispanic	8.6/14.9
			Any race/ethnicity	8.9/15.0
			9^th grade	5.1/7.2
			10^th grade	6.9/11.3
			11^th grade	11.1/19.5
			12^th grade	13.6/25.6

From: 1, Introduction

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Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Motor Vehicle Occupant Injuries [Internet].

Evidence Syntheses, No. 51.

Williams S, Whitlock E, Smith P, et al.

Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 2007 Aug.

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