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Percentage of adults binge drinking on heaviest drinking day (15584) Metric type
- Help text
- This metric is the percentage of adults binge drinking on heaviest drinking. Binge drinkers are defined as those aged 18+ who reported drinking more than 6 units of alcohol (women) or more than 8 units of alcohol (men) on their heaviest drinking day in the previous week. This is derived from the Health Survey for England variable: Units drunk on heaviest day in last 7.
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. Drinking very large amounts of alcohol on a single occasion increases the likelihood of experiencing acute alcohol-related harms.
As a group of indicators, the consumption measures from the Health Survey for England can assist with local needs assessment and commissioning.
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.
- Modified
- 13 Oct 2021
- Data last updated
- 11 Oct 2021
- Short label
- % of adults binge drinking on heaviest drinking day
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low 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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