Alcohol consumption among university students: a Sino-German comparison demonstrates a much lower consumption of alcohol in Chinese students

Table 2 Alcohol consumption by demo-social factors

Variables		Percent
		Chinese			German
		Never	Less than once a week	At least once a week	Never	Less than once a week	At least once a week	No problem drinking	Problem drinking
Gender	Male	49.3	42.4	8.3	7.2	20.2	72.6	70.3	29.7
Gender	Female	52.2	38.4	9.4	11.7	39.8	48.5	88.6	11.4
Having a partner	Yes	42.3	47.4	10.3	9.8	32.3	57.9	81.9	18.1
Having a partner	No	54.5	37.6	7.9	9.4	28.0	62.6	77.4	22.6
Father’s education	High	48.2	38.8	13.0	8.8	29.1	62.1	78.1	21.9
Father’s education	Low	53.3	42.1	4.6	10.6	32.0	57.4	82.2	17.8
Subjective general health	Good	51.3	39.9	8.8	9.3	30.3	60.4	80.2	19.8
Subjective general health	Poor	44.3	45.3	10.4	13.0	30.4	56.6	76.0	24.0
Income sufficiency	Sufficient	52.5	39.1	8.4	10.3	31.1	58.6	80.7	19.3
Income sufficiency	Insufficient	42.2	46.7	11.1	8.4	29.7	61.9	79.0	21.0
Nutrition importance	Important	52.2	40.0	7.8	9.9	31.3	58.8	80.5	19.5
Nutrition importance	Unimportant	41.1	44.3	14.6	8.7	19.5	71.8	71.0	29.0
Grade importance	Important	51.4	40.2	8.4	9.6	30.6	59.8	80.1	19.9
Grade importance	Unimportant	41.7	44.1	14.2	11.7	25.8	62.5	68.6	31.4
Perceived life quality	Good	50.9	39.4	9.7	8.8	29.5	61.7	79.4	20.6
Perceived life quality	Poor	50.4	41.3	8.3	11.0	31.8	57.2	80.0	20.0
Physical activity	≥3 times a week	42.6	44.4	13.0	8.3	28.5	63.2	76.0	24.0
	1–2 times a week	52.5	40.0	7.5	9.2	31.2	59.6	82.0	18.0
	Less than once a week	54.6	39.0	6.4	13.2	32.8	54.0	83.1	16.9
		Median (quartile deviation)
Age		20.0 (1.5)	21.0 (2.0)	22.0 (2.0)	23.0 (2.0)	23.0 (2.0)	23.0 (1.5)	22.5 (2.0)	23.0 (2.0)
Perceived Stress Scale scores^a		25.0 (5.0)	24.0 (5.5)	25.0 (4.0)	9.0 (2.0)	9.0 (1.5)	8.0 (1.5)	8.0 (1.5)	9.0 (2.0)
BMI		19.9 (1.5)	20.3 (1.6)	21.0 (1.7)	22.4 (2.4)	21.9 (1.8)	22.5 (1.8)	22.1 (1.9)	23.0 (1.7)

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