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The Scottish Health Survey 2008

Published: 29 September 2009
ISBN: 9780755981076

The Scottish Health Survey 2008

Table 3.2 Estimated usual weekly alcohol consumption level, 2003, 2008, by age and sex

Aged 16 and over
2003, 2008

Alcohol units per week	Age							Total
	16-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65-74	75+	Total
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Men
Under 1 unit a week/none
2003	15	11	13	10	14	22	34	15
2008	14	14	17	16	18	26	36	18
1-10 units per week
2003	26	27	29	29	29	30	28	28
2008	23	32	28	26	26	29	34	28
Over 10, up to 21 units per week
2003	24	24	22	23	22	22	16	23
2008	22	26	25	25	25	19	16	24
Over 21 units per week
2003	36	37	35	38	35	27	21	34
2008	41	28	31	32	31	25	14	30
Mean units per week
2003	19.6	20	23	23.1	21.1	15.7	12.5	20.3
2008	23.5	17.8	19.4	19.0	18.0	13.8	8.3	18.0
Standard errors of the means
2003	1.05	1.11	0.54	0.56	0.43	0.42	0.27	0.62
2008	1.96	1.43	1.37	1.09	1.07	0.86	0.69	0.53
Bases (weighted):
2003	536	596	755	665	566	404	258	3780
2008	405	475	559	549	478	326	218	3011
Bases (unweighted):
2003	309	446	726	610	630	507	323	3551
2008	220	312	456	530	523	451	304	2796
Women
Under 1 unit a week/none
2003	18	18	20	20	35	44	63	30
2008	15	25	25	26	29	45	63	31
1-7 units per week
2003	34	33	31	30	29	32	24	31
2008	32	36	33	33	35	31	25	33
Over 7, up to 14 units per week
2003	15	20	20	18	16	12	8	16
2008	15	19	20	18	16	12	9	16
Over 14 units per week
2003	32	28	27	30	21	13	5	23
2008	37	20	22	23	19	12	4	20
Mean units per week
2003	12.2	11.9	10.3	11.2	7.9	5.2	2.7	9.1
2008	16.2	8.2	9.9	9.2	7.2	5.4	2.7	8.6
Standard errors of the means
2003	1.05	1.11	0.54	0.56	0.43	0.42	0.27	0.31
2008	1.86	0.54	0.69	0.60	0.44	0.51	0.36	0.34
Bases (weighted):
2003	505	655	805	685	599	491	467	4209
2008	402	487	614	585	502	382	348	3319
Bases (unweighted):
2003	366	598	879	788	774	579	492	4476
2008	305	450	646	627	630	513	408	3579

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