Alcohol outlets and alcohol consumption in changing environments: prevalence and changes over time

Table 2 Unadjusted within-person change in alcohol consumption and alcohol outlets; by total (all), Pennsylvania and non-Pennsylvania, N = 772^a

	All			Pennsylvania			Non-Pennsylvania
	N = 772			N = 444			N = 328
Within-person change in alcohol consumption - change in days, drinks, binge occasions
	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75
Number of days consumed alcohol per week	0	−0.5	0.25	0	−0.25	0.25	0	−0.5	0.25
	N	%		N	%		N	%
No change, N (%)	312	40%		195	44%		117	36%
Decreased, N (%)	238	31%		119	27%		119	36%
Increased, N (%)	222	29%		130	29%		92	28%
	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75
Number of drinks per week	0	−0.75	1	0	−0.5	1	0	−1.25	1
	N	%		N	%		N	%
No change, N (%)	259	34%		161	36%		98	30%
Decreased, N (%)	252	33%		131	30%		121	37%
Increased, N (%)	261	34%		152	34%		109	33%
	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75
Number of binge occasions, past 30 days	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	N	%		N	%		N	%
No change, N (%)	522	68%		302	68%		220	67%
Decreased, N (%)	111	14%		60	14%		51	16%
Increased, N (%)	139	18%		82	18%		57	17%
Within person change in number of off-premise outlets, change in number within buffer
	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75	Median	P25	P75
1600 m buffer	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
	N	%		N	%		N	%
No change, N (%)	508	66%		281	63%		227	69%
Decreased, N (%)	58	8%		32	7%		26	8%
Increased, N (%)	206	27%		131	30%		75	23%

Abbreviations: SD standard deviation, P25 25th percentile, P75 75th percentile, Col column
^aIncludes participants who did not consume alcohol in past 30 days in both waves: N = 207 or 27% of the cohort

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