Welsh Health Survey 2008

4.4 Alcohol (pg.50)

4.4.2 Results

• 12% of adults reported that they were non-drinkers.

• 45% of all adults (i.e. including non-drinkers) reported drinking above the recommended guidelines on at least one day in the past week, including 28% who reported binge drinking.

Men were more likely than women to report drinking above the recommended guidelines in the past week (52% of men compared with 38% of women), and to report binge drinking (35% of men, 22% of women). Ths pattern applied to all age groups.

Drinking above guidelines was less common in older people, as seen in
figure 4e.

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