Table 2.
Monthly alcohol use (%) for the total sample and by gender, by study year and by country, grouped by direction of trend, between 1998 and 2006 (increase, no change, decrease) §#.
| Total | Boys | Girls | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | |
| Group 1: Overall increase between 1998 and 2006 | |||||||||
| Austria | 53.2 | 43.4 | 56.5 | 59.3 | 45.0 | 58.2 | 48.3 | 41.8 | 55.1 |
| Belgium | 51.8 | 45.3 | 55.2 | 58.3 | 49.9 | 58.9 | 44.9 | 41.0 | 51.3 |
| Czech Republic | 46.2 | 55.2 | 54.9 | 55.8 | 60.9 | 60.6 | 36.8 | 49.8 | 49.0 |
| Estonia | 39.9 | 41.0 | 46.2 | 47.8 | 49.1 | 49.7 | 33.9 | 33.3 | 42.6 |
| Hungary | 32.1 | 47.9 | 46.3 | 42.9 | 58.9 | 50.3 | 23.8 | 41.2 | 42.8 |
| Latvia | 37.8 | 35.3 | 52.0 | 48.4 | 38.9 | 54.2 | 31.0 | 32.5 | 50.1 |
| Lithuania | 31.1 | 36.4 | 40.9 | 36.3 | 43.3 | 40.2 | 26.8 | 29.2 | 41.6 |
| Switzerland | 32.6 | 42.4 | 41.0 | 39.9 | 52.4 | 47.2 | 25.2 | 31.8 | 35.0 |
| UK | 59.0 | 65.0 | 62.2 | 57.4 | 66.7 | 61.0 | 60.4 | 63.4 | 63.4 |
| Weighted average | 47.0 | 48.7 | 53.1 | 51.7 | 53.8 | 55.2 | 42.7 | 44.0 | 51.0 |
| Group 2: No trend | |||||||||
| Canada | 43.1 | 45.8 | 41.9 | 46.3 | 48.2 | 41.3 | 40.3 | 43.9 | 42.4 |
| France | 42.4 | 32.5 | 40.2 | 51.8 | 37.3 | 45.5 | 34.0 | 27.7 | 34.5 |
| Greenland | 28.8 | 29.8 | 30.4 | 31.2 | 36.4 | 27.5 | 26.3 | 25.0 | 33.2 |
| Israel | 26.4 | 29.4 | 30.0 | 37.6 | 38.5 | 41.3 | 16.8 | 21.9 | 22.8 |
| Poland | 30.9 | 31.1 | 29.3 | 38.2 | 39.6 | 38.6 | 22.2 | 23.3 | 20.7 |
| Portugal | 26.7 | 30.4 | 27.5 | 36.2 | 34.6 | 35.3 | 20.3 | 26.7 | 21.3 |
| Weighted average | 35.6 | 33.2 | 32.1 | 42.4 | 39.2 | 40.3 | 29.3 | 27.8 | 28.9 |
| Group 3: Overall decrease between 1998 and 2006 | |||||||||
| Denmark | 74.0 | 72.5 | 60.6 | 76.2 | 71.9 | 63.2 | 72.1 | 73.0 | 58.1 |
| Finland | 41.3 | 39.0 | 36.9 | 43.6 | 43.6 | 38.6 | 39.2 | 34.4 | 35.5 |
| Germany | 50.3 | 50.1 | 42.0 | 53.0 | 55.2 | 45.6 | 47.6 | 45.3 | 38.4 |
| Greece | 67.5 | 47.8 | 51.3 | 76.0 | 58.6 | 61.3 | 60.3 | 37.7 | 42.7 |
| Ireland | 44.7 | 28.0 | 36.1 | 51.8 | 33.5 | 35.4 | 37.1 | 24.6 | 37.0 |
| Norway | 38.6 | 43.5 | 31.2 | 37.7 | 40.4 | 29.0 | 39.6 | 46.4 | 33.7 |
| Russian Federation | 54.9 | 43.3 | 41.2 | 54.6 | 49.0 | 42.9 | 55.1 | 38.8 | 39.8 |
| Sweden | 41.2 | 36.3 | 28.8 | 42.8 | 37.2 | 29.7 | 39.4 | 35.4 | 28.0 |
| US | 36.8 | 27.3 | 28.1 | 39.6 | 32.1 | 27.0 | 34.5 | 23.2 | 29.3 |
| Weighted average | 48.9 | 43.4 | 39.9 | 51.8 | 47.4 | 41.5 | 46.2 | 39.9 | 38.4 |
| Total sample weighted average | 45.3 | 43.6 | 43.6 | 41.2 | 40.5 | 36.7 | 33.3 | 33.0 | 31.9 |
§
Highlighted percentages correspond to trends that are significant at the 95% Cl.
#
This grouping refers to the overall change between 1998 and 2006; different trends may appear when separately considering any two of these three years.