Survey data | National retail data | National mortality data | |||||
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Survey year | Household response level (%) | Adult response level (%) | Achieved adult sample | Consent to linkage (%) | Mean alcohol units per week in men | Total volume of pure alcohol sold (1000 l)* | Number of male alcohol-related deaths† |
1995 | 81 | 84 | 7932 | 93 | 20.1‡ | 41712 | 531 |
1998 | 77 | 76 | 9047 | 92 | 19.8‡ | 43770§ | 755 |
2003 | 67 | 54 | 8148 | 91 | 19.8¶ | 47175 | 1056 |
2008 | 61 | 54 | 6465 | 86 | 18.0¶ | 50346 | 971 |
2009 | 64 | 56 | 7531 | 85 | 17.5¶ | 50842 | 837 |
2010 | 63 | 55 | 7245 | 86 | 16.0¶ | 50524 | 909 |
2011 | 66 | 56 | 7544 | 86 | 15.0¶ | 48746 | 815 |
*Nielsen/CGA Strategy sales in Scotland dataset (off-trade sales in 2011 adjusted to account for the loss of discount retailers).21
†General Register Office for Scotland figures for 2011.51
‡The 1995 and 1998 surveys were prior to the significant change in the way in which alcohol consumption estimates were derived and are for men aged 16–64 only; thus, they are not comparable with those for 2003 onwards.
§Data not available for 1998—estimate interpolated from available figures for 1995 and 2000;
¶The estimates for the surveys from 2003 onwards are for men aged 16 and over.