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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2014 Aug 5;109(11):1857–1868. doi: 10.1111/add.12681

Table 1.

Description of individual-level data and country characteristics (%, or other if indicated).

Region n Mean age,
years
Boys, % 13-year-olds
15-year-olds
Abstainers,
%
Pattern of
drinking
scorea
Per
capita
totalb
Per capita
drinkersc
Binge
male
%d
Minimum
purchasing
age, yearse
Availabilityf Alcohol
control
policy indexf
Advertisingf
Drunk % Weekly % Drunk % Weekly %
Armenia 1916 14.4 46.4 30.4 13.4 39.7 17.7 18.8 2 11.4 18.3 0
Austria 3538 14.4 48.1 14.4 6.0 51.9 32.7 6.7 1 13.2 15.7 16 0 23 0
Belgium 5386 14.4 50.3 15.8 6.0 42.9 24.1 8.0 1 10.8 12.8 16 8 42 1
Canada 842 14.4 48.6 19.4 4.1 47.7 14.6 8.3 2 9.8 12.6 12.6 18 21 50 0
Croatia 4367 14.5 48.2 27.2 14.0 56.1 34.7 21.5 3 15.1 26.3 10.2 18
Czech 2969 14.5 47.6 33.0 19.1 62.7 38.5 4.6 3 16.5 19.5 30.7 18 4 35 0
Denmark 2467 14.6 47.0 23.6 8.3 67.9 21.4 0.8 2 13.4 14.4 13.1 16 9 33 1
Englandh 2301 14.5 41.9 24.4 8.5 49.1 21.6 12.1 3 13.4 15.6 18 14 36 0
Estonia 2805 14.8 48.1 27.5 8.1 62.5 16.6 10.5 3 15.6 22.0 15.7 18
Finland 3777 14.7 47.9 15.7 3.3 49.9 7.6 6.9 3 12.5 14.2 15.0 18 15 54 3
France 3970 14.4 49.5 13.6 7.9 35.8 18.7 2.6 1 13.7 14.9 8.0 18 2 27 1g
Germany 3265 14.4 47.4 15.9 4.1 45.0 20.9 1.7 1 12.8 13.4 13.1 16 8 22 0
Greece 3257 14.7 49.7 17.4 13.2 42.0 38.6 13.9 1 10.8 15.0 0 4 36 0
Hungary 3302 14.5 46.8 25.1 7.8 57.1 25.3 6.5 2 16.3 20.0 18.0 18 12 58 0
Iceland 7380 14.5 50.5 5.6 1.9 26.6 6.2 9.0 3 6.3 7.7 11.3 20 24 64 3
Ireland 3562 14.4 56.0 14.5 4.6 42.1 12.6 20.5 3 14.4 19.3 43.4 18 7 41 0
Israel 2580 14.7 43.4 7.6 39.0 25.3 43.6 40.5 2 2.9 5.5 18
Italy 3219 14.4 49.7 12.4 12.3 31.9 32.4 12.6 1 10.7 13.0 11.1 0 0 34 3
Latvia 2761 14.6 48.2 37.2 8.2 67.8 23.1 9.8 3 12.5 16.5 20.0 18
Lithuania 3509 14.7 51.7 41.9 7.5 74.4 21.0 10.5 3 15.0 10.1 18
Luxembourg 2978 14.4 50.0 11.9 5.5 34.3 20.3 10.4 1 13.0 0 0 14 0
Macedonia 2816 14.6 50.7 9.1 3.6 31.1 17.9 40.5 3 8.5 18
Netherlands 3032 14.4 50.3 6.3 4.3 30.5 22.5 11.4 1 10.1 13.8 16.1 16 5 34 1
Norway 2634 14.5 50.5 7.4 4.2 37.8 10.0 3.2 3 7.8 8.7 2.7 18 15 67
Poland 2844 14.7 48.2 23.5 6.4 47.6 13.8 13.9 3 13.3 17.9 18 7 67 3
Portugal 2848 14.5 45.8 17.3 2.3 34.3 8.3 25.3 1 14.6 27.5 16 0 27 1
Romania 3673 14.2 49.1 30.6 16.8 53.3 23.8 12.8 3 15.3 24.5 18
Russia 2956 14.6 49.5 23.2 7.9 40.7 11.0 19.7 3 15.7 26.7 15.7 18
Scotlandh 465 14.6 49.2 28.5 9.3 57.1 27.3 12.4 3 13.4 15.6 18 14 36 0
Slovakia 3851 14.4 48.9 26.8 12.0 53.2 21.8 7.3 3 13.3 17.3 15.0 18 4 57 1
Slovenia 3625 14.6 50.1 25.1 7.5 59.2 26.7 6.3 3 15.2 17.9 18
Spain 3777 14.5 48.4 17.3 6.0 49.5 22.6 17.1 1 11.6 21.1 16 11 41 3
Sweden 4358 14.4 49.8 7.5 3.5 36.6 10.0 8.1 3 10.3 12.5 2.3 20 20 64 3
Switzerland 4759 14.4 50.6 14.1 6.5 39.2 19.3 14.0 1 10.9 13.4 4.4 16 5 22 3
Ukraine 3731 14.7 47.1 29.9 17.4 55.4 36.3 22.7 3 15.6 27.9 21.2 0
US 4250 14.3 52.3 10.1 4.5 27.8 9.8 17.5 2 9.4 14.4 21 23 43 1
Walesh 3523 14.6 51.2 34.5 13.8 64.1 32.1 12.1 3 13.4 15.6 18 14 36 0
Mean (SD) 14.5 (1.1) 49.1 (0.0) 18.3 (0.4) 7.8 (0.3) 46.5 (0.5) 21.1 (0.4) 12.8 (8.9) 2.4 (1.1) 12.4 (2.9) 22.3 (7.8) 15.0 (9.4) 15.8 (5.7) 9.4 (7.2) 40.9 (14.8) 1.2 (1.3)
a

Patterns of drinking score ranging from 1–3, with 3 indicating the most harmful drinking pattern.

b

Based on recorded alcohol consumption and estimations of unrecorded alcohol measured in litres of pure alcohol consumed by the adult population (aged 15 years or more).

c

Alcohol per capita consumption among drinkers measured as pure alcohol consumed by the drinking population in litres.

d

Defined as having at least 60 g or more of pure alcohol on one occasion during the past 7 days.

e

Minimum purchasing age for any type of alcohol.

f

Alcohol Control Policy Index taken from Brand et al. 2007 [36].

g

France was the only country with a score of 2 and was therefore grouped with countries scoring 1.

h

The UK average was applied to Scotland, England and Wales, as regional data on adult drinking patterns were not available for the time-period—no data available.