Drinking amongst Girls in England in 2008
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Drinking amongst Girls in England in 2008
Selected statistics from the Information Centre’s annual report
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• The proportion of girls who say they’ve drunk in the last week is at it’s lowest in the last decade (16%)
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Proportion of girls who had ever had an alcoholic drink: 1988-2008
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Girls drinking patterns by year
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• The proportions who have never drunk falls with age.
• After rising in the first half of the last decade the proportion of girls saying they have drunk in the last week has fallen back.
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Proportion of Girls who have never drunk alcohol by age and sex
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Proportion of girls who drank alcohol in the last week
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• Those who are drinking appear to be drinking more often than in the past.
• The proportions drinking on Friday and Saturday have grown.
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The mean number of drinking days for girls who had drunk in the last week, by sex and year
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Days on which girls drank in the last week
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Units
• Following a change in the way units are calculated it is now difficult to do comparisons with previous years figures.
• Of those who have drunk in the last week 27% of girls say they had drunk 15 or more units of alcohol.
• What girls drink appears to be culturally determined, with – boys drinking more beer than girls, and – girls drinking more spirits and alcopops
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Units of alcohol drunk by girls who have drunk in the last week
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Types of alcohol drunk in the last week
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Percentage of units drunk in the last week by type of drink
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• Parents appear to be giving children alcohol to their children less often.
• Young people are increasingly drinking at home or parties and less at clubs or pubs.
• Amongst current drinkers the proportion of young people drinking on the street, in parks or outside increases as they get older.
• The heaviest drinkers are least likely to drink with their parents.
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Getting alcohol from home?
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Street drinkers?
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Street drinking by age
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Where do the heaviest drinkers drink?
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Heavier drinkers are less likely to drink with their parents
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Family Perceptions
• Young people think their families tolerate their drinking (as long as it’s not too much) as they get older.
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Perceived family attitude to pupil’s drinking
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Drunk
• Girls are slightly more likely to have been drunk if they have drunk alcohol in the last 4 weeks
• Girls who have been drunk are more likely to have; felt ill or sick, had an argument, vomited, had their clothes damaged, and lost money than boys
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Drinking to get drunk?
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Consequences
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Consequences
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Lessons
• Most pupils have a relatively accurate view of the proportions of pupils of their own age who drink alcohol
• Recall of lessons has been relatively stable in recent years– Year 10 pupils are the most likely (68%) to recall a
lesson alcohol in the last year– Year 7 pupils are the least likely (45%)
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Perception of how many people of pupil’s age drink alcohol
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Recall lesson on alcohol
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Proportion of pupils who remembered receiving lessons about alcohol in the last year, by school year
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Helpful sources of information for girls
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Helpful sources of information
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• Smoking drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2008 can be downloaded from the Information Centre’s website at:www.ic.nhs.uk