There was no main effect of urban/rural residency on alcohol use frequency in males; constraining the distributions of use to be equal across urban and rural communities did not cause a significant reduction in model fit (χ2Δ = 2.93, 3 df1, p = 0.40). However, there was a significant main effect of urban/rural residency on female alcohol use (χ2Δ = 8.24, 3 df, p = 0.04). Females living in rural communities were more likely to endorse abstinence (rural: 68.0%; urban: 64.4%) or light drinking [drinking less often than once a month (rural: 20.3%; urban: 18.3%)]; urban females were more likely to report heavier drinking [drinking about 1 or 2 times a month (urban: 13.5%; rural: 10.9%) or once a week or more (urban: 3.7%; rural: 0.8%)].
