Typology and Dynamics of Heavier Drinking Styles in Great Britain: 1978-2010.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify a typology of heavier drinking styles in Great Britain and to identify socio-demographic trends in the typology over the period 1978-2010.

Methods

We applied multiple correspondence analysis and agglomerative hierarchical clustering to beverage-specific quantity-frequency measures of alcohol consumption in the repeated cross-sectional General Lifestyle Survey of Great Britain, 1978-2010. The cluster analysis focuses on the 60,043 adult respondents over this period reporting average drinking levels above the UK Government guidelines. We projected sex, age, income, education, socio-economic status and tobacco consumption variables onto the clusters to inspect socio-demographic trends in heavier drinking.

Results

We identified four stable clusters of hea

SUBMITTER: Purshouse RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5397881 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature