| 1. |  | Content of the interview
The review of the GHS carried out in 1997 concluded that the survey should be re-launched from April 2000 with a different design. The survey was suspended during 1999 to carry out development work for the new survey. This work was described in the ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 2. | | Usual alcohol consumption in the last 12 months
The continuous element of the GHS includes questions about alcohol consumption on the heaviest day during the week prior to interview. These questions were introduced in 1998 following the publication, in 1995, of an inter-departmental review of drinking ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 3. | | Drinking
Two measures of alcohol consumption are used in this
report (one daily-based and the other weekly-based) reflecting the move from
weekly to daily-based guidelines from the Department of Health in 1996. Thus,
trend data is currently available only fo ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 4. | | Drinking
Questions about drinking alcohol have been included in the General Household Survey every two years since 1978. Prior to 1988 the questions were only asked of those aged 18 and over. Since 1988 respondents aged 16 and 17 have answered these questions usin ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 5. | | Measuring alcohol consumption
Obtaining reliable information about drinking behaviour is difficult and, in consequence, social surveys consistently record lower levels of consumption than would be expected from data on alcohol sales. This is partly because people may consciously or un ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 6. | | Weekly alcohol consumption level
This measure has been used on the GHS since 1986, and was developed in response to earlier medical guidelines on drinking which related to maximum recommended weekly amounts of alcohol. Its use has been continued to provide a consistent measure of alcohol ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 7. | | Frequency of drinking during the last week
Men were more likely to have
had an alcoholic drink in the previous week than were women:
75% of men and 60% of women had had a drink on at
least one day during the previous week. The proportions drinking last
week also varied between age g ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 8. | | Maximum daily amount drunk last week
In this, and in subsequent sections of the chapter, two measures of daily consumption are discussed. The first is the proportions exceeding the recommended daily benchmarks: that is, men drinking more than four units in one day and women drinking ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 9. | | Daily drinking and sex, age and marital status
Men were much more likely than women to have exceeded the daily benchmarks on at least one day during the previous week 39% of men compared with 23% of women had done so and they were twice as likely as women to have drunk heavily (21% compared with 10 ... [View Item>>] | |
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| 10. | | Daily drinking and weekly alcohol consumption level
Not surprisingly, perhaps, those whose average weekly alcohol consumption was highest were also most likely to have exceeded the daily benchmarks and to have had a heavy drinking day in the previous week. Three-quarters of men whose usual consumption was ... [View Item>>] | |
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