ACTGHS resilience score, adults
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Commentary
In 2022, 49.3% of respondents to the ACT General Health Survey aged 18 to 24 years, 29.0% of respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 31.4% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 20.0% of respondents aged 65 years and over reported drinking more than 4 drinks on 1 occasion in the past 4 weeks. Respondents aged 18 to 24 years were significantly more likely to report drinking more than 4 alcoholic drinks on 1 occasion in the past 4 weeks than respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years and 65 years and over in 2022.
The Australian alcohol guidelines recommend that healthy men and women should drink no more than 10 standard drinks a week and no more than 4 standard drinks on any one day to reduce the risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury.
The less you drink, the lower your risk of harm from alcohol. For more information, visit Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol.
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.
Respondents to the 2022 survey were aged 18 years and over. Persons includes male, female, other and refused sex respondents and may not always add to the sum of male and female.
The 2018 estimate for respondents aged 18 to 24 years has a relative standard error between 25% and 50% and should be used with caution.
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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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who drank more than 4 alcoholic drinks on 1 occasion in the past 4 weeks, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2016-2022
Data
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Codes and sources
Q. In the past 4 weeks have you had more than 4 standard drinks on one occasion?
Yes; No; Don't know; Refused
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.