Report: Youth Drinking in Decline
Published by University of Sheffield, September 2018
SUMMARY
Researchers analysed data from two national surveys - the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Amongst Young People in England surveys between 1988 and 2016, and the Health Survey for England from 2001 to 2016. Both cover children, young people and young adults aged between eight and 24.
The researchers found drinking alcohol has declined significantly across all age groups. The proportion of children between the ages of eight and 12 who had ever had an alcoholic drink fell from 25 per cent in 2002 to four per cent in 2016. The proportion of 11- to 15-year-olds who had drunk alcohol fell from 61 per cent in 2003 to 38 per cent in 2014, when the last comparable data was collected. A key question was changed in 2016 when 44.3 per cent of 11- to 15-year-olds were recorded as ever having drunk alcohol.
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