United States Data
Binge Drinking
Healthy People 2010 Objective: Reduce the proportion of persons, 12-17 years-old, engaging in binge drinking of alcoholic beverages
| National Data | Baseline (2002) |
Final (2007) |
Numeric Change |
2010 Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
12- to 17- year-olds
|
10.7%
|
9.8%
|
-0.90
|
3.1%
|
United States Data
All the tables below contain data available for the entire United States and this objective.
| Age | Baseline (2002) |
Final (2007) |
Numeric Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEMALE |
9.90% |
9.00% |
-0.90
|
| MALE |
11.40% |
10.60% |
-0.80
|
| Age | Baseline (2002) |
Final (2007) |
Numeric Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMERICAN INDIAN NON-HISPANIC |
18.20% |
20.00% |
1.80
|
| ASIAN NON-HISPANIC |
3.20% |
6.20% |
3.00
|
| BLACK NON-HISPANIC |
4.90% |
4.30% |
-0.60
|
| HISPANIC |
10.50% |
9.60% |
-0.90
|
| MIXED RACE NON-HISPANIC |
8.60% |
6.70% |
-1.90
|
| WHITE NON-HISPANIC |
12.50% |
11.50% |
-1.00
|
| Age | Baseline (2002) |
Final (2007) |
Numeric Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACK: FEMALE |
4.70% |
4.30% |
-0.40
|
| BLACK: MALE |
5.20% |
4.30% |
-0.90
|
| HISPANIC: FEMALE |
9.80% |
8.70% |
-1.10
|
| HISPANIC: MALE |
11.10% |
10.50% |
-0.60
|
| WHITE: FEMALE |
11.40% |
10.50% |
-0.90
|
| WHITE: MALE |
13.60% |
12.50% |
-1.10
|
Source: National data—National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2002 baseline, 2007 final); State data—Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1999 baseline, 2007 final).
X = when an entire column has “X”, data are not available for that year; in a column with data, “X” represents that the data don’t meet the criteria for statistical reliability because there were less than 100 respondents for a subgroup; in the Numeric Change column, “X” represents that there are no valid numbers in the Baseline and Midcourse columns to generate a number in this column.
