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Table 2 Mean alcohol consumed through typical, atypical/special, and all drinking occasions by demographics and typical consumption

From: Holidays, celebrations, and commiserations: measuring drinking during feasting and fasting to improve national and individual estimates of alcohol consumption

    

UK Units a per week

 
    

Typical

Atypical/special

All

% change

    

95% CI

95% CI

95% CI

  

n

%

Mean

Lower

Upper

Mean

Lower

Upper

Mean

Lower

Upper

Total

 

4,604

 

10.0

9.5

10.5

2.3

2.1

2.5

12.3

11.8

12.9

23.0

Sex

Male

1,725

37.5

15.6

14.4

16.7

2.8

2.4

3.3

18.4

17.2

19.6

18.3

 

Female

2,879

62.5

6.7

6.3

7.1

2.0

1.8

2.2

8.7

8.2

9.2

29.5

 

F, P

  

F = 287.303, P <0.001

F = 15.990, P <0.001

F = 280.921, P <0.001

 

Age

16–24

247

5.4

9.3

7.3

11.3

4.9

3.5

6.2

14.2

11.9

16.5

52.3

 

25–34

379

8.2

10.1

7.6

12.7

4.0

3.0

5.0

14.1

11.1

17.1

39.3

 

35–44

508

11.0

8.7

7.7

9.7

3.1

2.5

3.8

11.8

10.5

13.2

36.0

 

45–54

839

18.2

11.3

10.1

12.5

3.1

2.5

3.6

14.3

12.9

15.8

27.1

 

55–64

1,024

22.2

11.2

10.0

12.4

2.2

1.7

2.6

13.4

12.1

14.7

19.3

 

65–74

1,016

22.1

9.9

8.9

10.9

1.2

0.8

1.5

11.1

10.1

12.1

11.7

 

75+

591

12.8

7.8

6.7

8.9

0.6

0.3

0.8

8.4

7.2

9.5

7.6

 

F, P

  

F = 3.663, P = 0.001

F = 22.220, P <0.001

F = 7.690, P <0.001

 

Deprivation

Deprived

1,376

29.9

10.2

9.1

11.3

2.1

1.7

2.4

12.2

11.0

13.5

20.2

tertile

Mid

973

21.1

10.6

9.5

11.8

2.5

2.0

3.1

13.2

11.9

14.4

23.9

 

Affluent

2,255

49.0

9.7

9.1

10.3

2.4

2.1

2.6

12.1

11.4

12.7

24.3

 

F, P

  

F = 0.990, P = 0.372

F = 1.414, P = 0.243

F = 1.122, P = 0.326

 

Ethnicity

White

4,412

95.8

10.1

9.6

10.6

2.3

2.1

2.5

12.4

11.9

13.0

22.9

 

Asian/Chinese

50

1.1

5.8

2.6

9.0

1.4

0.4

2.5

7.2

3.9

10.6

25.1

 

Black/Other

142

3.1

8.7

6.5

11.0

2.3

1.3

3.4

11.1

8.4

13.8

26.9

 

F, P

  

F = 1.876, P = 0.153

F = 0.364, P = 0.695

F = 2.033, P = 0.131

 

Typical alcohol consumption category b

Lower risk

1

1,300

28.2

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.8

0.6

1.0

1.1

0.9

1.3

209.3

 

2

1,636

35.5

3.8

3.7

3.9

2.4

2.2

2.7

6.2

5.9

6.5

64.9

 

3

820

17.8

12.1

11.8

12.3

3.3

2.8

3.7

15.3

14.8

15.9

27.1

Increasing risk

4

436

9.5

21.7

21.1

22.3

3.6

2.9

4.3

25.3

24.4

26.3

16.7

 

5

247

5.4

32.2

31.1

33.2

4.2

2.8

5.6

36.4

34.6

38.2

13.1

Higher risk

6

165

3.6

74.2

67.3

81.1

1.9

−1.2

5.1

76.1

68.3

83.9

2.6

F, P

   

n/a

F = 22.337, P < 0.001

F = 1592.674, P < 0.001

 
  1. a1 UK Unit = 8 g of alcohol; bConsumption categories are taken from Health Survey for England [9]; see Box 1. Statistics use Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). 95% CI, 95% Confidence intervals.
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