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Alcohol consumption among Australian adults in grams/day

Usage

alcohol

Format

A data frame with 12 rows and 11 columns:

sex

Whether individuals were male or female

alcohol_g

Category for the measure in grams of alcohol consumption

median_intake

The median intake for the group

age_18_24, age_25_34, age_35_44, age_45_54, age_55_64, age_65_74, age_75_plus, age_18_plus

Proportion of adults in each of the alcohol_g categories (by age group).

References

Pandeya, Nirmala, et al. "Cancers in Australia in 2010 attributable to the consumption of alcohol." Australian and New Zealand journal of public health 39.5 (2015): 408-413.

See also

dementiarisk for the relative risks and prevalence estimates