© 1987 Medical Council on Alcohol
research-article
BIAS IN A SURVEY OF DRINKING HABITS
Renfrew Council on Alcohol, Community Services Centre Queen Street, Paisley PA1 2T U.K.
Received 12 August 1986; accepted 16 February 1987
This paper presents data from a general population survey of three areas of Britain which manifest considerable differences in official rates of problem drinking, yet show similar patterns and levels of alcohol consumption. Consideration of various sources of bias (non-response, forgetting, selective under-reporting, and interviewer) suggest that they do not differentially influence self-reported alcohol consumption in the three areas.