Table 3.

Trends in the proportion (%) of non-drinkers among health and health behaviour sub-groups, HSE2005–2015^a

	Year											N	p-value trend	% Change 2005–2015
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Health Behaviours
Smoking status
Non-smokers	23	28	22	27	28	31	27	34	33	36	34	6393	p < 0.001	50
Smokers	12	14	10	13	13	15	15	11	15	17	16	3257	0.083	36
BMI category
Normal/underweight	17	23	19	22	26	25	21	28	27	30	26	5523	p < 0.001	55
Overweight/obese	17	22	15	21	17	22	25	21	24	29	29	2976	p < 0.001	74
Fruit and vegetable consumption categories
Five or more portions of fruit and veg	20	24	18	24	29	27	23	–	25	–	26	2494	0.084	30
Three to four	17	23	20	22	21	25	25	–	33	–	32	2843	p < 0.001	91
0–2	18	23	16	22	21	26	22	–	26	–	28	2863	0.002	55
Physical Activity
Low	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	43	39	35	1496	0.149	−19
Medium	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25	30	30	1628	0.142	19
High	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15	23	22	1706	0.039	44
Health
GHQ score
Zero	20	21	–	24	20	27	–	28	–	37	–	3619	p < 0.001	79
One or more (less than optimal)	14	23	–	20	27	22	–	23	–	22	–	2638	0.174	54
WEMWBS score
Mid to high wellbeing	–	–	–	–	–	24	22	24	26	30	29	3482	0.006	18
Low wellbeing	–	–	–	–	–	23	23	24	30	29	27	2477	0.237	19
Longstanding illness (LSI)
No longstanding illness	18	23	19	23	22	24	23	27	28	31	30	7676	p < 0.001	67
Longstanding illness	20	25	13b	23	29	33	24	27	26	30	25	2019	0.02	25

^aFigures in bold indicate statistical significantly different to 2005, for 95% confidence intervals see Additional file 1: Table S3

^bAlternative Baseline year, where no difference found with 2005