title: Patterns of public drinking in a multiethnic society. A systematic observational study.
abstract: Systematic observations of 216 New Zealand men--Maoris, Pacific Islanders and Europeans--produced a causal model replicated within each ethnic group: drinking-group size determines time spent in the pub, which determines glasses of beer consumed; group size and time spent in the pub accounted for 69% of ethnic differences in consumption.
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009520:New Zealand; D010139:Pacific Islands / Q000208:ethnology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D013997:Time Factors