Table 1.

Details of focus groups and participants.

Focus group	Group type a	Group composition b	Age range	Alcohol units in past week
1	Students	Mixed (3F 2M)	20–21	20–51
2	Manual workers	Single (4F)	19–25	0–14
3	Students	Mixed (2F 2M)	18–21	0–35
4	Manual workers	Mixed (4F 2M)	22–27	8–31
5	Niche venue attenders	Mixed (2F 2M)	20–24	22–31
6	Professional workers	Single (4F)	25–28	9–22
7	Students	Mixed (1F 3M)	20–22	52–110
8	Students	Single (4F)	20–21	9–31
9	Niche venue attenders	Mixed (3F 1M)	21–23	12–74
10	Professional workers	Mixed (2F 2M)	24–29	19–52
11	Niche venue attenders	Mixed (3F 1M)	All 22	21–63
12	Students	Mixed (1F 4M)	18–21	17–25
13	Manual workers	Single (4M)	23–27	7–48
14	Manual workers	Single (5M)	23–29	42–120
15	Mainstream venue attenders	Mixed (1F 3M)	18–26	0–48
16	Mainstream venue attenders	Mixed (2F 3M)	19–27	1–50
17	Professional workers	Mixed (1F 3M)	22–29	21–50
18	Student Group	Mixed (1F 3M)	18–23	0–40
19	Niche venue attenders	Mixed (1F 3M)	23–27	6–40
20	Bar Workers	Mixed (4F 1M)	21–29	2–27
21	Catering Workers	Mixed (3F 1M)	21–25	14–45

^aThese categorisations should be considered as giving a ‘flavour’ of the group as a whole; some could have been categorised in multiple ways (e.g. niche venue attenders but also containing some university students).

^bF female; M male.