ACTGHS meets alcohol guideline, adults

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ACTGHS meets alcohol guideline, adults

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Proportion of adults aged 18 years and over who meet the 2020 alcohol guideline, ACT General Health Survey, 2020-2021

To find out how to access the ACT General Health Survey data, click on the "Data" tab.

79.9% of respondents to the 2021 ACT General Health Survey aged 18 years and over reported alcohol consumption which meets the guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. In 2021, males (70.6%) were significantly less likely to report meeting the 2020 alcohol guideline than females (88.7%).

Estimate is based on respondents aged 18 years and over who answered the alcohol questions. It includes those who reported that they do not drink alcohol.

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.

The Australian alcohol guidelines recommend that healthy men and women should drink no more than 10 standard drinks a week and no more than 4 standard drinks on any one day to reduce the risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury.

The less you drink, the lower your risk of harm from alcohol. For more information, visit: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/health-advice/alcohol.

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 the 2020 alcohol guideline 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. On a day when you drink alcohol, how many standard drinks do you usually have?
Q. In the past 7 days, did you drink more than 10 standard drinks?

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.