Table 1. Average number of units per week for each age period in six adult-life trajectories of alcohol consumption.

	Full sample	Abstaining	Moderate	High-risk	Increasing	Decreasing	Fluctuating
	N = 2510 men	n = 76	n = 1635	n = 119	n = 274	n = 320	n = 86
		3.0%	65.1%	4.7%	10.9%	12.7%	3.4%
Age periods
26–30	11.56	0.00	7.87	35.50	9.22	25.78	13.38
31–40	12.86	0.00	8.22	39.91	14.23	26.49	20.13
41–50	12.75	0.00	8.75	45.28	19.35	16.77	18.93
51–60	11.85	0.00	9.08	46.73	25.26	3.98	13.49
Mean (unweighted) a	12.23	0.00	8.48	41.86	17.02	18.25	16.48

^a Across age periods, 26–60