Alcohol

Trends and Statistics

Alcohol in New Zealand Factsheets (Dec 2010)
These alcohol factsheets outline New Zealand's drinking patterns and alcohol-related health, crime and violence, and drink driving.

New Zealand Police - National Alcohol Assessment (PDF) (admin.police.govt.nz) (2009)

This document provides a national assessment of Police data relating to alcohol offending and victimisation. It describes and identifies the behavioural, demographic, temporal and locational characteristics of alcohol related offending and victimisation. It also describes trends in the data, including predictions of how alcohol related offending is expected to evolve. This document includes all relevant Police data sources, and includes descriptions of the databases and clearly signals the limitations around the data. It also identifies internal gaps in Police data relating to alcohol related offending.

Alcohol Use in New Zealand: Key results of the 2007/08 New Zealand Alcohol and Drug Use Survey (www.moh.govt.nz)(2009)

The survey measured alcohol and drug use among more than 6,500 New Zealanders aged 16–64 years from August 2007 to April 2008.

Alcohol Use in New Zealand - Analysis of the 2004 New Zealand Health Behaviours Survey – Alcohol Use

A Portrait of Health - Ket Results of the 2006/7 NZ Health Survey

Chapter 2, page 67-75 are related to alcohol use.

New Zealand Drug Statistics (www.nzhis.govt.nz)

This report collates a diverse range of statistics relating to drugs (including alcohol) and drug use in New Zealand. Its primary focus is on drugs used recreationally or due to dependence. It includes legal and illegal drugs.

Berl report - Costs of harmful alcohol and other drug use (www.berl.co.nz)

The Social Costs of Tobacco Use and Alcohol Misuse (Apr 1997)

This report was prepared for the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand (ALAC), the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) and the Public Health Commission (PHC) to bring together and extend the existing fragmented estimates of various aspects of the social consequences of tobacco use and alcohol misuse in New Zealand.

Page last updated 6 December 2010

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