Table 1.

Sample size and weighted percentages for drinking pattern and diabetes onset by decade, National Alcohol Survey 2014–15

Lifecourse Decade	Teens		20s		30s		40s		50s		60s
Age range of applicable sample	18–69		20–69		30–69		40–69		50–69		60–69
n	5,626		5,504		4,764		3,838		2,740		1,358
Drinking pattern	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
5+ Daily/nearly daily	130	2.7	217	4.5	137	3.2	99	2.8	55	2.3	9	0.6
5+ ≥ 1x a week	520	10.7	748	17.3	398	9.1	221	6.3	119	5.5	25	2.0
5+ ≥ 1x a month	555	13.1	810	17.4	543	12.9	300	8.6	133	4.7	17	0.8
5+ <monthly, alcohol ≥ weekly	220	3.8	495	8.0	485	11.2	436	13.3	531	22.7	251	21.2
5+ <monthly, alcohol ≥ monthly	412	7.9	733	12.9	684	14.6	488	12.9	439	16.0	190	14.8
Alcohol yearly or less	930	18.4	1,001	18.8	1,029	22.5	899	24.1	492	17.9	228	15.6
No alcohol during period	1,873	29.6	487	7.2	595	12.5	651	17.6	563	20.2	420	32.4
Lifetime abstainers	835	11.3	781	10.3	684	10.2	559	10.2	396	10.6	209	12.1
Missing	151	2.4	232	3.6	209	3.9	185	4.0	12	0.2	9	0.6
Total	5,526	100	5,504	100	4,764	100	3,838	100	2,740	100	1,358	100
Diabetes onset1	30	0.5	60	1.0	123	2.1	200	5.9	240	8.9	106	9.4

¹The weighted percentage represents incidence proportion of new diabetes onset during the decades among those who never had the disease before