title: Teenage drinking: a 4-year comparative study.
abstract: Two adolescent drinking surveys carried out within 4 years in the same region of the UK were compared on three aspects of drinking behaviour. The results showed that there was a higher proportion of non-drinkers in 1992 as compared with 1988 for males aged 11-15 and females aged 11-13; more 11-13 year-old females in 1992 reported their home as the location of their first alcoholic drink without their parents; and younger boys were less likely, in 1992, to report ever being drunk. The relative increase in the proportion of non-drinking adolescents is in line with similar recent trends in national sample surveys of young adults.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Foxcroft
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lister-Sharp
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D017677:Age Distribution; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology