Latest trends on alcohol consumption in England from the Alcohol Toolkit Study
Vera Buss, Loren Kock, Jamie Brown
Last updated: 8th July 2025
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In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
In 2022, question asked every other month from April 2022
Audit items 4 to 10 not collected from April 2022.
- Data collected during monthly household survey beginning March 2014
- Each month involves a new representative sample of ~ 1700 adults (16 and over)
- Due to the pandemic:
– The March 2020 survey did not complete face-to-face collection at short notice and is missing
– To present trends, March is interpolated as the average of Feb and April
– From April 2020 to December 2021, surveys were conducted by telephone and among adults aged 18 and over. From January 2022 data collection resumed among those aged 16 and over.
- Between November 2020 and February 2022, ~0.8% of cases in England were incorrectly weighted 0. This has now been updated and some point estimates over this period have changed slightly (typically 1 d.p.) compared with earlier versions.
- Since May 2022, some questions are only asked every second month. Therefore, the 3-month moving average is calculated after imputing the average from the previous and the following for the missing value.
- Methods described in open access: Beard, et al., 2015. 'Protocol for a national monthly survey of alcohol use in England with 6-month follow-up: ‘The Alcohol Toolkit Study’. BMC Public Health 15:230 – http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/15/230
- Risky drinking measured using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test – Consumption (AUDIT-C) https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/alcohol-problem-drinking/diagnosis/how-to-screen/
