Skip to main content
. 2010 Sep 10;10:547. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-547

Table 4.

Proportion of youths drinking outside of national consumption guidance by reported consumption and access behaviours

Excess drinking (%)
Consumption and access Frequent drinking Heavy drinking
Unsupervised inside drinking Yes 26.2 65.7
No 17.2 <0.001 40.1 <0.001

Outside drinking (streets, parks, shops) Yes 16.1 77.8
No 37.3 <0.001 45.1 <0.001

Parents provide Yes 19.0 47.1
No 26.1 <0.001 63.3 <0.001

Take from parents Yes 31.7 70.6
No 21.7 <0.001 53.8 <0.001

Proxy purchase Yes 38.8 78.0
No 20.4 <0.001 52.2 <0.001

Self-purchase Yes 39.9 80.1
No 16.6 <0.001 46.8 <0.001

Frequent drinking Yes 90.1
No 44.6 <0.001

Heavy drinking Yes 36.8
No 4.9 <0.001