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 3.4: Estimated units consumed on heaviest drinking day, 2003 to 2018

Base: Aged 16 and over		2003 - 2018
Alcohol units consumed per heaviest drinking day		2003	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Alcohol units consumed per heaviest drinking day		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Men	Consumed over 4 units on HDD	45	44	44	43	41	42	40	41	41	39	37	36
	Consumed over 8 units on HDD	29	27	26	26	25	25	25	24	26	24	21	23
	Mean units on HDD^a	9.0	8.9	8.5	9.0	8.3	8.3	8.0	8.5	8.6	8.3	8.0	8.5
	SE of the mean	0.21	0.25	0.21	0.27	0.20	0.27	0.26	0.27	0.29	0.27	0.31	0.32
Women	Consumed over 3 units on HDD	37	36	34	33	34	30	31	33	32	32	29	28
	Consumed over 6 units on HDD	19	18	17	16	17	15	15	16	14	17	13	14
	Mean units on HDD^a	6.2	6.0	5.7	5.7	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.8	5.7	6.1	5.3	5.7
	SE of the mean	0.14	0.21	0.14	0.14	0.12	0.16	0.15	0.23	0.26	0.28	0.18	0.18
All adults	Consumed over 3/4 units on HDD	41	40	39	38	37	36	35	37	36	36	33	32
	Consumed over 6/8 units on HDD	24	22	21	21	20	20	19	20	20	20	17	18
	Mean units on HDD^a	7.7	7.6	7.2	7.4	7.1	7.1	6.9	7.2	7.2	7.3	6.7	7.2
	SE of the mean	0.14	0.17	0.15	0.17	0.13	0.18	0.17	0.19	0.22	0.21	0.19	0.21
Unweighted bases	Men	3580	2801	3244	3066	3242	2104	2081	2001	2170	1839	1538	2057
	Male drinkers	2576	1922	2242	2025	2150	1389	1342	1290	1362	1170	916	1181
	Women	4507	3579	4202	4083	4217	2659	2721	2552	2706	2391	2060	2718
	Female drinkers	2596	2021	2317	2168	2222	1339	1329	1327	1376	1198	1032	1284
	All adults	8087	6380	7446	7149	7459	4763	4802	4553	4876	4230	3598	4775
	All drinkers	5172	3943	4559	4193	4372	2728	2671	2617	2738	2368	1948	2465
Weighted bases	Men	3819	3015	3521	3386	3549	2264	2267	2137	2299	2012	1698	2292
	Male drinkers	2742	2093	2453	2259	2362	1522	1474	1366	1462	1286	1030	1325
	Women	4254	3320	3865	3710	3860	2460	2498	2379	2541	2197	1870	2474
	Female drinkers	2453	1915	2152	2022	2096	1251	1248	1265	1329	1117	938	1162
	All adults	8073	6335	7385	7096	7409	4724	4765	4517	4841	4209	3568	4767
	All drinkers	5194	4008	4605	4281	4459	2773	2722	2630	2791	2402	1968	2486

a Those who had consumed alcohol in the past week

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Table 3.4: Estimated units consumed on heaviest drinking day, 2003 to 2018

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