Table 3.
Drunkenness (%) 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 | 19/98 | 2002 | 20/06 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | |
| Group 1: Overall increase between 1998 and 2006 | |||||||||
| Estonia | 32.0 | 49.2 | 49.7 | 44.0 | 56.7 | 57.3 | 23.0 | 42.0 | 42.0 |
| Hungary | 27.9 | 34.2 | 35.7 | 39.3 | 47.2 | 39.8 | 19.1 | 26.3 | 32.2 |
| Latvia | 31.2 | 32.4 | 44.4 | 45.1 | 41.4 | 50.4 | 22.1 | 25.5 | 39.1 |
| Lithuania | 25.7 | 49.7 | 53.6 | 32.4 | 56.8 | 56.8 | 20.4 | 42.2 | 50.3 |
| Poland | 30.7 | 30.9 | 34.4 | 39.4 | 39.6 | 42.0 | 20.4 | 22.9 | 27.4 |
| Russian Federation | 28.1 | 33.7 | 34.5 | 31.8 | 39.0 | 38.1 | 24.7 | 29.4 | 31.6 |
| Weighted average | 29.1 | 37.9 | 41.2 | 37.7 | 46.2 | 46.8 | 21.7 | 30.8 | 36.1 |
| Group 2: No trend | |||||||||
| Belgium | 27.5 | 30.1 | 27.4 | 32.7 | 35.1 | 32.4 | 22.1 | 25.3 | 22.1 |
| Czech Republic | 29.2 | 33.1 | 33.5 | 36.9 | 37.5 | 36.4 | 21.6 | 29.0 | 30.4 |
| France | 24.1 | 18.6 | 23.5 | 28.8 | 22.1 | 28.6 | 19.8 | 15.0 | 18.1 |
| Greece | 22.1 | 20.1 | 19.2 | 23.4 | 23.4 | 21.7 | 20.9 | 16.9 | 17.1 |
| Greenland | 51.3 | 57.6 | 43.9 | 49.7 | 64.0 | 43.3 | 52.9 | 52.9 | 44.4 |
| Israel | 9.7 | 15.2 | 12.3 | 14.1 | 21.1 | 18.4 | 6.0 | 10.3 | 8.4 |
| Portugal | 17.8 | 22.1 | 21.0 | 25.2 | 25.6 | 24.9 | 12.9 | 18.9 | 18.0 |
| Switzerland | 20.5 | 32.3 | 23.1 | 25.4 | 38.1 | 28.9 | 15.7 | 26.2 | 17.7 |
| Weighted average | 23.3 | 25.8 | 24.0 | 28.2 | 28.7 | 28.1 | 18.3 | 20.5 | 19.3 |
| Group 3: Overall decrease between 1998 and 2006 | |||||||||
| Austria | 42.5 | 36.4 | 37.7 | 49.3 | 38.0 | 40.9 | 37.0 | 34.9 | 35.1 |
| Canada | 42.2 | 42.3 | 35.3 | 42.5 | 43.9 | 34.9 | 42.0 | 41.1 | 35.7 |
| Denmark | 66.2 | 66.1 | 57.3 | 69.2 | 67.4 | 59.0 | 63.5 | 64.9 | 55.7 |
| Finland | 54.4 | 54.5 | 45.4 | 51.7 | 53.4 | 46.6 | 56.9 | 55.7 | 44.3 |
| Germany | 32.8 | 39.2 | 29.4 | 35.6 | 44.4 | 31.2 | 29.9 | 34.4 | 27.7 |
| Ireland | 41.1 | 32.0 | 33.6 | 46.8 | 32.6 | 35.7 | 35.0 | 31.7 | 31.1 |
| Norway | 38.9 | 39.5 | 28.2 | 36.6 | 38.4 | 25.3 | 41.2 | 40.6 | 31.6 |
| Sweden | 39.9 | 38.6 | 26.1 | 39.2 | 39.3 | 26.4 | 40.7 | 37.9 | 25.7 |
| UK | 58.1 | 55.3 | 47.8 | 60.5 | 55.2 | 45.6 | 55.8 | 55.3 | 49.9 |
| US | 31.3 | 26.3 | 19.8 | 34.4 | 30.4 | 20.0 | 28.8 | 22.7 | 19.6 |
| Weighted average | 46.4 | 45.3 | 37.9 | 48.4 | 46.6 | 37.9 | 44.6 | 44.0 | 38.0 |
| Total sample weighted average | 37.2 | 37.1 | 34.8 | 49.8 | 48.5 | 47.0 | 41.2 | 39.0 | 41.3 |
*
The drunkenness variable refers to 2 or more episodes of drunkenness
§
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.