In order to examine specific relationships between alcohol use and risky sex for African American and European American girls, we excluded the small number of girls (N=33) representing other races. We also excluded one girl who reported that she had initiated sexual intercourse with a boy by age 11. Data on age 16 risky sexual behaviors were not available for 15 girls either because their caregivers requested that questions pertaining to sex should not be asked, or the girls refused to answer. Descriptive statistics for the final sample (N=499) of 288 (57.7%) African American and 211 (42.3%) European American girls are shown in Table 1.
