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Percentage of adults who abstain from drinking alcohol (15583) Metric type
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- This metric shows the percentage of those aged 18+ who report to never drink alcohol in the Health Survey for England.
Alcohol consumption is a contributing factor to hospital admissions and deaths from a wide range of conditions. Alcohol misuse is estimated to cost the NHS about £3.5 billion per year and society as a whole £21 billion annually.
Alcohol-related harm is determined by the volume of alcohol consumed and the frequency of drinking occasions. As such, the risk of harm is directly related to levels and patterns of consumption. Since alcohol consumption at any level is potentially harmful, only abstainers are at zero risk.
Abstainers are defined as those aged 18+ who respond "No" to question DNNOW ("Do you drink alcohol nowadays?") and "Never" to question DNANY ("Do you drink occasionally or never drink?").
Four years of Health Survey for England data have been combined to increase the sample size to a sufficiently robust level. Figures for areas with an unweighted sample size (denominator) below 50 have been suppressed.
The proportion was calculated as 100 * (survey weight of abstainers) / (survey weight of all respondents).
The weighting variable used is WT_INT (interview weight), rescaled for the four years of combined data and for ages 18+.
- Modified
- 13 Oct 2021
- Data last updated
- 11 Oct 2021
- Short label
- % of adults who abstain from drinking alcohol
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Percentage of Adults
- Dataset
- Consumption and Availability
- Collection
- Local Alcohol Profiles for England
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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