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© 1989 Oxford University Press

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The Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Social Status in Stockholm. Has the Social Pattern of Alcohol Consumption Changed?

ANDERS ROMELSJÖ

Karolinska Institute, Department of Social Medicine, Kronan Health Centre S–172 83 Sundbyberg, Sweden.

Romelsjö A (Karolinska Institute, Department of Social Medicine, Kronan Health Centre, S–172 83 Sundbyberg, Sweden). The relationship between alcohol consumption and social status in Stockholm. Has the social pattern of alcohol consumption changed? International Journal of Epidemiology 1989, 18: 842–851.

Data from the Stockholm Health of the Population Study in 1984 (n = 6217) show small differences in mean alcohol consumption and in the prevalence of high consumers in various socioeconomic and educational categories of both sexes. Among young people mean consumption was higher in those who had low formal education, equal to 18.8 g 100% ethanol among men aged 18–24 years and 5.9 g for those with public elementary school education, while the corresponding figures for young women were 16.7 and 1.8 g respectively. Those reporting a high alcohol consumption (≥35 g 100% ethanol/day among men and ≥25 g among women) had a relative risk over 7 of having been inpatients with alcohol-related diseases during 1980–1984. Our results, together with other recent Swedish survey data, indicate a change in the socioeconomic distribution of alcohol consumption over time. This change is analysed in relation to Swedish alcohol policy, changes in income in various socioeconomic categories, and the increase in information about alcohol.

Revised 1 January 1989


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