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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 142-147, 2003
© 2003 Medical Council on Alcohol

AN ANALYSIS BY BIRTH COHORT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION BY ADULTS IN GREAT BRITAIN 1978–1998

John Kemm

Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

Received 3 May 2002; first review notified 14 September 2002; accepted 8 October 2002

— Aims and Methods: The General Household Survey for Great Britain has, since 1978, in even numbered years, included questions on alcohol consumption. A cohort analysis was applied to these sequential cross-sectional data. Results and Conclusions: Analysis confirms that, after about age 20 years, both men and women, as they grow older, become more likely to be non- or very light drinkers. Men are also less likely to be heavy drinkers as they grow older, but for women the picture is less clear-cut. Cohort effects can also be discerned, but are much less obvious than for smoking. There is a general trend for members of later cohorts at any age to be less likely to be non- or very light drinkers and more likely to be heavy drinkers, than members of earlier cohorts. However, for men, this trend seems to have ended with those born from about 1927 to 1931, while for women the trend has continued and possibly become stronger in cohorts born after 1927–1931.


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