Frequency
of drinking 5 or more drinks on one occasion in the last 12 months,
by age group and sex, household population aged 12 and over who
are current drinkers, Canada, 2000/01
Frequency
of
heavy drinking |
Total,
population reporting drinking |
Never
5 or more drinks on one occasion |
5
or more drinks on one occasion, less than twelve times a year |
5
or more drinks on one occasion, twelve or more times a year |
Drinking
frequency, not stated |
Number |
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
2000/2001 |
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Total,
12 years and over |
19,832,244 |
11,028,396 |
55.6 |
4,618,818 |
23.3 |
3,979,661 |
20.1 |
205,369 |
1.0 |
Males |
10,254,854 |
4,624,858 |
45.1 |
2,606,918 |
25.4 |
2,902,319 |
28.3 |
120,759 |
1.2 |
Females |
9,577,389 |
6,403,537 |
66.9 |
2,011,900 |
21.0 |
1,077,342 |
11.2 |
84,610 |
0.9 |
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12-19
years |
1,732,962 |
810,443 |
46.8 |
456,590 |
26.3 |
435,482 |
25.1 |
30,448 |
1.8 |
Males |
896,639 |
385,784 |
43.0 |
224,658 |
25.1 |
269,607 |
30.1 |
16,590 |
1.9 |
Females |
836,324 |
424,658 |
50.8 |
231,932 |
27.7 |
165,875 |
19.8 |
13,858 |
1.7 |
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12-14
years |
263,807 |
213,023 |
80.7 |
33,675 |
12.8 |
12,544 |
4.8 |
4,564E |
1.7E |
Males |
142,545 |
118,252 |
83.0 |
16,929 |
11.9 |
4,347E |
3.0E |
F |
F |
Females |
121,262 |
94,772 |
78.2 |
16,747 |
13.8 |
8,197E |
6.8E |
F |
F |
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15-19
years |
1,469,155 |
597,419 |
40.7 |
422,915 |
28.8 |
422,937 |
28.8 |
25,884 |
1.8 |
Males |
754,094 |
267,533 |
35.5 |
207,729 |
27.5 |
265,260 |
35.2 |
13,572 |
1.8 |
Females |
715,062 |
329,886 |
46.1 |
215,186 |
30.1 |
157,678 |
22.1 |
12,312E |
1.7E |
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20-34
years |
5,419,565 |
2,041,432 |
37.7 |
1,717,520 |
31.7 |
1,587,004 |
29.3 |
73,609 |
1.4 |
Males |
2,854,263 |
805,019 |
28.2 |
875,561 |
30.7 |
1,127,698 |
39.5 |
45,986 |
1.6 |
Females |
2,565,302 |
1,236,413 |
48.2 |
841,959 |
32.8 |
459,307 |
17.9 |
27,623 |
1.1 |
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20-24
years |
1,854,368 |
561,994 |
30.3 |
569,025 |
30.7 |
687,829 |
37.1 |
35,519E |
1.9E |
Males |
972,394 |
223,558 |
23.0 |
265,838 |
27.3 |
458,213 |
47.1 |
24,785E |
2.5E |
Females |
881,973 |
338,436 |
38.4 |
303,187 |
34.4 |
229,616 |
26.0 |
10,734E |
1.2E |
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25-34
years |
3,565,197 |
1,479,437 |
41.5 |
1,148,495 |
32.2 |
899,175 |
25.2 |
38,090 |
1.1 |
Males |
1,881,869 |
581,461 |
30.9 |
609,723 |
32.4 |
669,484 |
35.6 |
21,201E |
1.1E |
Females |
1,683,328 |
897,976 |
53.3 |
538,772 |
32.0 |
229,691 |
13.6 |
16,889E |
1.0E |
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35-44
years |
4,470,852 |
2,332,263 |
52.2 |
1,188,862 |
26.6 |
923,006 |
20.6 |
26,721 |
0.6 |
Males |
2,306,760 |
951,405 |
41.2 |
676,264 |
29.3 |
663,943 |
28.8 |
15,148 |
0.7 |
Females |
2,164,092 |
1,380,858 |
63.8 |
512,597 |
23.7 |
259,063 |
12.0 |
11,574 |
0.5 |
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45-64
years |
5,824,995 |
3,786,967 |
65.0 |
1,078,972 |
18.5 |
908,842 |
15.6 |
50,214 |
0.9 |
Males |
3,025,253 |
1,564,736 |
51.7 |
698,182 |
23.1 |
732,817 |
24.2 |
29,517 |
1.0 |
Females |
2,799,743 |
2,222,230 |
79.4 |
380,790 |
13.6 |
176,026 |
6.3 |
20,697 |
0.7 |
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45-54
years |
3,625,833 |
2,207,017 |
60.9 |
759,438 |
20.9 |
626,189 |
17.3 |
33,189 |
0.9 |
Males |
1,867,862 |
874,494 |
46.8 |
476,412 |
25.5 |
496,321 |
26.6 |
20,636 |
1.1 |
Females |
1,757,972 |
1,332,523 |
75.8 |
283,026 |
16.1 |
129,869 |
7.4 |
12,554E |
0.7E |
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55-64
years |
2,199,162 |
1,579,950 |
71.8 |
319,534 |
14.5 |
282,653 |
12.9 |
17,025 |
0.8 |
Males |
1,157,391 |
690,243 |
59.6 |
221,770 |
19.2 |
236,496 |
20.4 |
8,882 |
0.8 |
Females |
1,041,771 |
889,707 |
85.4 |
97,764 |
9.4 |
46,157 |
4.4 |
8,143E |
0.8E |
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65
years and over |
2,383,869 |
2,057,292 |
86.3 |
176,875 |
7.4 |
125,326 |
5.3 |
24,376 |
1.0 |
Males |
1,171,939 |
917,913 |
78.3 |
132,253 |
11.3 |
108,255 |
9.2 |
13,518E |
1.2E |
Females |
1,211,929 |
1,139,379 |
94.0 |
44,621 |
3.7 |
17,071 |
1.4 |
10,858 |
0.9 |
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65-74
years |
1,518,045 |
1,257,976 |
82.9 |
139,351 |
9.2 |
105,799 |
7.0 |
14,920E |
1.0E |
Males |
768,909 |
564,317 |
73.4 |
103,020 |
13.4 |
91,837 |
11.9 |
9,735E |
1.3E |
Females |
749,137 |
693,659 |
92.6 |
36,331 |
4.8 |
13,962 |
1.9 |
5,185E |
0.7E |
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75
years and over |
865,823 |
799,316 |
92.3 |
37,524 |
4.3 |
19,527 |
2.3 |
9,456 |
1.1 |
Males |
403,031 |
353,596 |
87.7 |
29,233 |
7.3 |
16,418 |
4.1 |
3,783E |
0.9E |
Females |
462,792 |
445,720 |
96.3 |
8,290E |
1.8E |
3,109E |
0.7E |
5,674E |
1.2E |
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1. |
Data
source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey,
2000/01 |
2. |
Population
aged 12 and over who are current drinkers and who reported
drinking 5 or more drinks on at least one occasion in the
past 12 months. |
3. |
Bootstrapping
techniques were used to produce the coefficient of variation
(CV) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). |
4. |
Data
with a coefficient of variation (CV) from 16.6% to 33.3% are
identified by an (E) and should be interpreted with caution. |
5. |
Data
with a coefficient of variation (CV) greater than 33.3% were
suppressed (F) due to extreme sampling variability. |
6. |
Health
regions are defined by provincial governments as the areas
of responsibility for regional health boards (i.e., legislated)
or as regions of interest to health care authorities. |
7. |
A
"peer group" is a grouping of health regions that
have similar social and economic characteristics. |
8. |
In
Newfoundland and Labrador, health regions are generally referred
to as Health and Community Services (HCS) regions. |
9. |
In
Prince Edward Island, the two health regions divide the province
into urban and rural components. |
10. |
Prince
Edward Island has defined these health regions for statistical
purposes only; they bear no resemblance to the boundaries
of the five actual administrative health regions. |
11. |
In
Nova Scotia, health regions are known as "health zones"
and relate to the province's administrative health region
boundaries. |
12. |
In
Ontario, Public Health Units (PHU) administer health promotion
and disease prevention programs, and District Health Councils
(DHC) are advisory, health planning organizations. |
13. |
Because
of the small population of Churchill, Manitoba (population:
1,110 in 1996), the Canadian Community Health Survey only
collects data for the aggregation of Burntwood/Churchill (regions
4680, 4690). |
14. |
In
Saskatchewan, "service areas" (SA) have been created
from groupings of the 33 health districts. |
15. |
In
Alberta, health regions are referred to as Health Authorities
(HA) or Regional Health Authorities (RHA). |
16. |
The
following symbols are used in Statistics Canada publications:
(..) for figures not available and (...) for figures not appropriate
or not applicable. |
17. |
CANSIM
table number 01050031. |
Source:
Statistics Canada's Internet Site
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/00502/tables/html/2155.htm
Extracted
May 28, 2002.
http://www.statcan.ca
In
the United States
Department
of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Newsletter/winter2004/Newsletter_Number3.htm#council
NIAAA Council Approves Definition of Binge Drinking
On February 5, 2004, the NIAAA National Advisory Council approved
the following definition/statement:
A "binge"
is a pattern of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol concentration
(BAC) to 0.08 gram percent or above. For the typical
adult, this pattern corresponds to consuming 5 or more drinks (male),
or 4 or more drinks (female), in about 2 hours. Binge drinking is
clearly dangerous for the drinker and for society.
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In the
above definition, a "drink" refers to half an ounce
of alcohol (e.g., one 12–oz. beer, one 5–oz. glass of wine,
or one1.5–oz. shot of distilled spirits).
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Binge drinking
is distinct from "risky" drinking (reaching a peak
BAC between .05 gram percent and .08 gram percent) and a "bender"
(2 or more days of sustained heavy drinking).
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For some
individuals (e.g., older people or people taking other drugs
or certain medications), the number of drinks needed to reach
a binge–level BAC is lower than for the "typical adult."
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People
with risk factors for the development of alcoholism have increased
risk with any level of alcohol consumption, even that below
a "risky" level.
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For pregnant
women, any drinking presents risk to the fetus.
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Drinking
by persons under the age of 21 is illegal.
The Council's
decision was based on a recommendation from a task force chaired
by NIAAA Associate Director Dr. Mark Goldman. "The task force
was charged with developing a recommended definition of binge drinking
for use in the field's future research efforts," said Dr. Lorraine
Gunzerath, acting chief, Strategic Research Planning Branch in NIAAA's
Office of Scientific Affairs, who spearheaded the task force report.
Task force members included Drs. Raul Caetano, Sandra Brown, Kenneth
Hoffman, George Koob, Sean O'Connor, and Kenneth Sher. The group
held a workshop November 4–5, 2003, to determine the factors that
define heavy episodic drinking or distinguish it from other patterns
of alcohol use and abuse, including cut–off points, amounts, or
timeframes; predictive factors; trajectories; and outcomes. Over
the 2–day workshop, the task force heard invited presentations in
the areas of neurobiology, physiology, psychology, sociocultural
contexts, and measurement issues. After reviewing the presented
material, the members reconvened on February 4, 2004, to produce
a consensus definition, and submitted their recommendation to the
full Council for approval.
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