Usual Intake of Alcohol

Table 36 includes the mean, standard error of the mean, and percentiles of the distribution of intake; Appendix Table A36 provides percentile values (rounded) and their standard errors.

Table 36. Alcohol: Mean (standard error) and percentiles³ of usual intake, 2001-2004
	Age (years)	N¹	Mean (SE)²	5%	10%	25%	50%	75%	90%	95%
	Age (years)	N¹	Drinks
Children	1-3	1515	0.0 (0.00)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Children	4-8	1701	0.0 (0.00)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Males	9-13	1061	0.0 (0.00)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.02
	14-18	1424	0.1 (0.03)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.10	0.34	0.65
	19-30	1100	1.3 (0.13)	0.01	0.04	0.16	0.64	1.83	3.54	4.87
	31-50	1466	1.4 (0.09)	0.02	0.05	0.20	0.78	2.03	3.78	5.09
	51-70	1252	1.0 (0.08)	0.01	0.03	0.11	0.46	1.37	2.76	3.84
	71+	832	0.6 (0.06)	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.19	0.71	1.65	2.46
	19+	4650	1.2 (0.07)	0.01	0.03	0.14	0.58	1.69	3.29	4.56
Females	9-13	1112	0.0 (0.00)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.05
	14-18	1362	0.1 (0.02)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.11	0.24
	19-30	1325	0.3 (0.05)	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.07	0.32	0.95	1.60
	31-50	1595	0.5 (0.05)	0.00	0.01	0.03	0.15	0.57	1.41	2.20
	51-70	1284	0.4 (0.05)	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.09	0.38	1.04	1.68
	71+	860	0.2 (0.03)	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.03	0.14	0.48	0.89
	19+	5064	0.4 (0.03)	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.09	0.40	1.11	1.80
All Persons	1+	17889	0.6 (0.03)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.59	1.83	2.97

1: Number of persons in sample.

2: Standard error of the mean (df=30).

3: Standard errors of the percentiles are presented in Appendix Table A36.

Table A36. Alcohol: Percentiles (and standard errors) of usual intake, 2001-2004
	Age (years)	5% (SE)¹	10% (SE)	25% (SE)	50% (SE)	75% (SE)	90% (SE)	95% (SE)
	Age (years)	Drinks
Children	1-3	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)
Children	4-8	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)
Males	9-13	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.0 (0.01)
	14-18	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.03)	0.3 (0.08)	0.7 (0.14)
	19-30	0.0 (0.01)	0.0 (0.02)	0.2 (0.05)	0.6 (0.13)	1.8 (0.21)	3.5 (0.30)	4.9 (0.38)
	31-50	0.0 (0.01)	0.0 (0.02)	0.2 (0.05)	0.8 (0.10)	2.0 (0.15)	3.8 (0.24)	5.1 (0.33)
	51-70	0.0 (0.01)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.03)	0.5 (0.08)	1.4 (0.12)	2.8 (0.18)	3.8 (0.24)
	71+	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.02)	0.2 (0.05)	0.7 (0.11)	1.7 (0.17)	2.5 (0.22)
	19+	0.0 (0.01)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.04)	0.6 (0.08)	1.7 (0.11)	3.3 (0.16)	4.6 (0.24)
Females	9-13	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.0 (0.01)
	14-18	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.04)	0.2 (0.08)
	19-30	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.3 (0.06)	1.0 (0.13)	1.6 (0.21)
	31-50	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.2 (0.04)	0.6 (0.09)	1.4 (0.14)	2.2 (0.17)
	51-70	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.03)	0.4 (0.07)	1.0 (0.14)	1.7 (0.19)
	71+	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.04)	0.5 (0.10)	0.9 (0.16)
	19+	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.01)	0.1 (0.02)	0.4 (0.05)	1.1 (0.08)	1.8 (0.11)
All	1+	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.0 (0.00)	0.1 (0.02)	0.6 (0.06)	1.8 (0.10)	3.0 (0.12)

1: Standard error of the percentile.

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