ACTGHS average alcoholic drinks, adult age groups
Please note that these indicators are not currently up to date and will be replaced shortly with dashboards. In the meantime the most currently available data is available at https://www.data.act.gov.au or contact healthinfo@act.gov.au
Commentary
In 2021, respondents to the ACT General Health Survey aged 18 to 24 years who indicated that they drink alcohol reported that they drink 4.6 alcoholic drinks on average per day, respondents aged 25 to 44 years drank 3.2, respondents aged 45 to 64 years drank 2.5 and respondents aged 65 years and over drank 1.9. Average daily alcohol consumption was significantly higher for respondents aged 18 to 24 years than respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years and 65 years and over.
For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.
Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.
Number of alcoholic drinks consumed per day is not collected every third year (i.e. 2019 and 2022).
Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.
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Average daily alcoholic drinks, adults aged 18 years and over, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2011-2021
Data
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Codes and sources
Q. On a day when you drink alcohol, how many standard drinks do you usually have?
Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.
A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found in Data collections.