ACTGHS doesn't drink sugar sweetened drinks, adult age groups

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ACTGHS doesn't drink sugar sweetened drinks, adult age groups

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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who don't drink sugar sweetened drinks, by age group, ACT General Health Survey, 2014-2021

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24.5% of respondents to the 2021 ACT General Health Survey aged 18 to 24 years, 52.8% of respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 57.3% of respondents aged 45 to 64 years and 71.6% of respondents aged 65 years and over reported that they do not drink sugar sweetened drinks. In 2021, respondents aged 18 to 24 years were significantly less likely to report that they do not drink sugar sweetened drinks than respondents aged 25 to 44 years, 45 to 64 years and 65 years and over. Respondents aged 65 years and over were significantly more likely to report that they do not drink sugar sweetened drinks than respondents aged 25 to 44 years and 45 to 64 years in 2021.

Sugar sweetened drinks includes soft drink, cordials, or sports drinks such as lemonade or Gatorade.

For the purpose of reporting the ACT General Health Survey data on HealthStats, if the 95% confidence intervals of the estimates do not overlap, they are considered to be significantly different.

Note: The indicator shows self-reported data collected through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). Estimates were weighted to adjust for differences in the probability of selection among respondents and were benchmarked to the estimated residential population using the latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates.

Data for sugar sweetened drink consumption are not collected every third year (i.e. 2019 and 2022).

Persons includes respondents who identified as male, female, other and those who refused to answer and may not always add to the sum of male and female.

Statistically significant differences are difficult to detect for smaller jurisdictions such as the Australian Capital Territory. Sometimes, even large apparent differences may not be statistically significant. This is particularly the case in breakdowns of small populations because the small sample size means that there is not enough power to identify even large differences as statistically significant.

To access the data for this indicator, please click on "View source data" by hovering over the 3 dots in the top right hand corner of the chart in the "Chart" tab. This will open the Data ACT portal where you can download the data.  

To access the complete ACT General Health Survey data, please click on the following link to the Data ACT portal:

https://www.data.act.gov.au/Health/ACT-General-Health-Survey-2011-2022/cb3x-zfa8

You can view or export the data from the Data ACT portal.

To request additional ACT General Health Survey data, please submit an online data request form:

https://act-health.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/20

Q. How many cups of soft drink, cordials or sports drinks, such as lemonade or Gatorade do you usually drink in a day?

Don't know and refused responses were excluded from analysis.

A copy of the ACT General Health Survey questionnaires can be found under the Epidemiology Survey Program tab within the Data Collection page: https://health.act.gov.au/about-our-health-system/data-and-publications/healthstats/data-collections.