Girls are drinking as often as boys for the first time, according to asurvey commissioned by the Department of Health. The research, from theNational Centre for Social Research and National Foundation forEducational Research, shows almost a quarter of girls, and boys, nowdrink alcohol.
Yet the figures, based on almost a thousand 11- to 15-year-olds, showlittle recent change in how often girls drink.
Instead, while the proportion of girls who drank alcohol in the pastweek has remained unchanged at 23 per cent since 2000, the number ofboys who have done so has dropped by two per cent in the same period.The rate for boys and girls has moved up and down between 20 and 27 percent since 1988.
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