title: Demographic trends in alcohol use: the value of a surveillance system.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine trends in alcohol consumption in South Australia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data collection from 2003 to 2011. Time series trends overall and by age, sex, education level, and income by proportion of drinkers, mean number of drinks, drinking less than one day, drinking on six or more days per week, lifetime alcohol risk and injury risk.
  
  
  RESULTS
  An overall decline in the proportion of alcohol drinkers, an increase in the overall proportion of adults drinking alcohol less than one day per week. No overall change in mean number of drinks consumed per day but with differences by demographic groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study presents multiple consumption-related variables over time and has highlighted important demographic variations in alcohol consumption.
authors.affiliation: Population Research and Outcome Studies, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Australia. anne.taylor@adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: Anne W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campostrini
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beilby
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000639:trends; D003710:Demography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D004522:Educational Status; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D013021:South Australia / Q000453:epidemiology