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Table 146 gives the percentages who drank excessively and/or were binge drinkers by
Locality and gender. There are only very minor differences among the Localities for
men, with slightly higher percentages drinking excessively and/or binge drinking in East
Locality (34%) compared to 30% for North Locality 31% for West locality. For women,
North Locality residents had a slightly higher percentage of problem drinkers (17%)
compared to East Locality (16%) and West Locality (15%).
Table 146: Excessive alcohol consumption and binge drinking by Locality
Gender Locality
Men
Women
Number of
responders
Alcohol (excessively: 21+/14+ units for men/women
weekly and/or binge: 8+/6+ units for men/women > 1
per week), %
Problem drinkers
Never drinks
Acceptable
weekly units,
no binge
Acceptabl
e weekly
units,
binge
Excessive
weekly
units, no
binge
Excessive
weekly
units,
binge
North 188 18.1 52.1 16.5 4.8 8.5
East 315 15.6 50.5 18.4 4.4 11.1
West 367 18.3 51.2 13.9 3.3 13.4
North 200 32.5 50.5 7.5 3.5 6.0
East 317 29.3 54.9 8.2 3.5 4.1
West 355 31.5 53.2 5.6 4.2 5.4
As the age distribution of the wards differ, it is useful to standardise the percentages for
age when comparing the prevalence across the wards. As the number of survey
responders was relatively low in the Prevalence Survey 44 , it was not possible to use the
most recent prevalence estimates. For smoking, obesity and exercise, the information
from the Prevalence Survey and the Social Capital Survey, both completed during 2009,
were combined. However, the Social Capital survey responders were not asked about
their binge drinking, so it is not possible to combine the estimates from these surveys.
As there are a number of measures for assessing alcohol consumption (i.e. excessively
weekly units and/or binge drinking), the numbers by age and gender become relatively
small at ward level when examining each alcohol measure separately. Therefore,
estimates for the Health and Lifestyle Survey 2007 have been used to give agestandardised
prevalence estimates at Area and Locality level (rather than at ward level).
Figure 135 and Figure 136 give the age-adjusted percentages of men never drinking
alcohol, drinking excessively, binge drinking, and drinking excessively and/or binge
drinking (“problem drinking”) for each area for men and women respectively. The
underlying data are given in the APPENDIX on page 881 and page 881 respectively.
44 Especially when examining subgroups by gender, age and Locality (for example, only 10 men aged 75+
in North Locality participated in the Prevalence Survey).
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