Adolescent alcohol consumption and peer pressure

Data from Barnes, Farrell, and Banerjee (1994) measuring the relation between changes in alcohol use and changes in peer pressure to use alcohol in a sample of 1122 Black and White adolescents tracked from the beginning of seventh grade through the end of eighth grade.

Usage

alcohol_use_2

Format

A person-period data frame with 3366 rows and 5 columns:

id

Participant ID.

time

Time of measurement.

female

Binary indicator for whether the adolescent is a female.

alcohol_use

Natural logarithm of the averaged scores of three six-point items measuring frequency of beer, wine, and liquor consumption, respectively.

peer_pressure

Natural logarithm of a six-point item measuring frequency friends offered alcoholic drinks during the past month.

Source

Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., & Banerjee, S. (1994). Family influences on alcohol abuse and other problem behaviors among black and white adolescents in a general population sample. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 4, 183–201. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327795jra0402_2

Note

Barnes, Farrell, and Banerjee (1994) report a sample of only 699 adolescents; however, they note that this was an ongoing longitudinal study, which likely explains the sample size discrepancy with the data used by Singer and Willett (2003).