11.5% NeverI shall leave it to BERL to workout the social cost of graduates.
9.3% Almost never
11.7% Less than once a month
10.7% Once a month
14.4% Once every two weeks
18.1% Once a week
17.8% Two or three times a week
4.4% Four or five times a week
2.1% Six or seven times a week
0.1% Skipped question
How many standard drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day when you are drinking?
n = 7676 (88.0%) who indicated that they drink at least some alcohol (i.e., excluding those who indicated that they never drink alcohol) and responded to this item
Mean = 4.1 (SD = 3.6)
Median = 3.0
Mode = 2
Range = 1 – 25+ (those who endorsed 25+ drinks were assigned the lower limit value of 25)
Interquartile range = 2.0 – 5.0
How often do you have six or more standard drinks on one occasion?
n = 7713 (88.5%) who indicated that they drink at least some alcohol (i.e., excluding those who indicated that they never drink alcohol)
25.3% Never
26.4% Once or twice a year
17.6% Less than monthly
17.2% Monthly
13.0% Weekly
0.1% Daily or almost daily
0.3% Skipped question
Friday, 6 April 2012
Graduates and drinking
From the Graduate Longitudinal Study New Zealand we learn that when it comes to how often graduates drink alcohol the results are:
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Surely we'd need some linkage to baseline results to establish anything about the differential costs of graduates as compared to drop-outs or those who never attend tertiary.
Results could be interesting.
Since when do students answer these surveys honestly?
Note, I'm not taking a position on the social cost of alcohol, but I can remember universities forcing these surveys infront of everyone, and it receiving a bit of a laugh.
The results are more likely a commentary on what students 'think' appropriate levels of drinking are, not what they actually do.
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