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Scottish Health Survey 2018: main report - revised 2020

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

Base: Aged 16 and over and drank alcohol in past week		2003 - 2018
% who drank on >5 days / mean number of days drank alcohol in last week^a		2003	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
		%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Men	Drank on >5 days	20	17	14	15	13	13	12	11	14	15	13	13
	Mean number of days	3.3	3.1	2.9	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.8	2.9	2.8	2.9
	SE of the mean	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.07
Women	Drank on >5 days	13	10	9	10	10	10	9	8	8	10	9	9
	Mean number of days	2.7	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.5	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.5	2.4	2.5
	SE of the mean	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.08	0.06	0.06
All adults	Drank on >5 days	17	14	11	13	12	12	11	10	11	13	11	11
	Mean number of days	3.0	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.6	2.6	2.6	2.7	2.7	2.7
	SE of the mean	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.05	0.05
Unweighted bases	Men	2590	1967	2266	2057	2174	1405	1392	1346	1421	1214	963	1230
	Women	2609	2053	2346	2200	2256	1361	1354	1360	1410	1222	1055	1298
	All adults	5199	4020	4612	4257	4430	2766	2746	2706	2831	2436	2018	2528
Weighted bases	Men	2762	2160	2497	2307	2406	1551	1538	1437	1537	1330	1090	1373
	Women	2472	1953	2199	2070	2152	1283	1285	1301	1370	1143	965	1178
	All adults	5234	4113	4696	4377	4557	2834	2823	2738	2907	2473	2055	2550

a Of those who drank alcohol in the last week

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