Publication - Statistics

Scottish Health Survey 2018: main report - revised 2020

Published: 21 February 2020
Topic: Health and social care
ISBN: 9781839605550

An amended version of the Scottish Health Survey 2018 main report.

Table 3.1: Estimated usual weekly alcohol consumption level, 2003 to 2018

Base: Aged 16 and over		2003 - 2018
Alcohol units per week^a		2003	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Alcohol units per week^a		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Men	Non-drinker	8	10	10	12	11	12	12	14	14	13	14	13
	Moderate	45	45	49	48	51	50	53	51	51	53	53	55
	Hazardous/Harmful	47	44	41	39	38	38	34	35	36	35	33	32
	Mean units per week^b	21.8	20.3	19.7	18.3	17.0	17.5	15.7	15.9	17.2	16.9	16.4	16.1
	SE of the mean	0.66	0.61	0.84	0.55	0.45	0.67	0.52	0.48	0.69	0.80	0.79	0.72
Women	Non-drinker	13	13	16	17	17	17	20	18	18	19	19	19
	Moderate	64	67	66	65	65	65	64	65	66	63	65	65
	Hazardous/Harmful	23	20	18	18	18	18	16	17	17	17	16	16
	Mean units per week^b	10.6	10.1	9.4	9.2	9.1	9.3	8.6	9.0	8.7	8.8	8.6	8.9
	SE of the mean	0.35	0.38	0.28	0.27	0.27	0.39	0.30	0.39	0.30	0.37	0.34	0.42
All adults	Non-drinker	11	12	13	15	14	15	16	16	16	16	17	16
	Moderate	55	57	58	57	58	57	59	59	58	58	59	60
	Hazardous/Harmful	34	32	29	28	28	28	25	25	26	26	24	24
	Mean units per week^b	16.1	15.0	14.5	13.7	13.0	13.3	12.2	12.4	12.9	12.8	12.5	12.5
	SE of the mean	0.39	0.38	0.47	0.33	0.30	0.40	0.33	0.35	0.39	0.47	0.45	0.46
Unweighted bases	Men	3558	2796	3272	3064	3239	2095	2108	2028	2212	1869	1576	2051
	Male drinkers	3218	2463	2876	2654	2842	1794	1815	1737	1856	1587	1313	1692
	Women	4482	3578	4227	4076	4220	2657	2724	2564	2723	2395	2066	2707
	Female drinkers	3791	3033	3481	3297	3415	2153	2144	2063	2156	1889	1626	2111
	All adults	8040	6374	7499	7140	7459	4752	4832	4592	4935	4264	3642	4758
	All drinkers	7009	5496	6357	5951	6257	3947	3959	3800	4012	3476	2939	3803
Weighted bases	Men	3791	3011	3572	3388	3551	2253	2303	2171	2350	2031	1743	2279
	Male drinkers	3437	2673	3168	2953	3131	1963	2005	1844	2003	1744	1472	1924
	Women	4215	3317	3906	3711	3874	2464	2501	2389	2564	2199	1877	2461
	Female drinkers	3578	2831	3241	3047	3164	2022	1963	1951	2077	1736	1486	1943
	All adults	8006	6329	7478	7098	7425	4717	4805	4560	4914	4230	3619	4740
	All drinkers	7015	5504	6409	6000	6294	3985	3968	3795	4080	3480	2958	3867

a Non-drinker: no units per week; Moderate: >0 units and up to 14 units; Hazardous/harmful: more than 14 units. Figures for men / all adults have been revised for 2003 to 2014 in line with these new guidelines
b Those who had consumed alcohol in the past year

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Table 3.1: Estimated usual weekly alcohol consumption level, 2003 to 2018

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