Attitudes, age and sex as correlates and predictors of self-reported alcohol consumption

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Abstract
Data from interviews on 5,000 men and 5,000 women in New Zealand who were contacted in 1978‐79 are partly analysed to examine the relationships between self‐reported consumption levels, age, sex, and components of attitudes to alcohol and its role in society, based on 21 items previously scaled. The sampling fraction of one in 300 is one of the highest used in a national survey, consequently the data have important normative status. Relations between variables were examined by regression and canonical correlation procedures and shown to be complex and heterogeneous. Up to 19.4% of the consumption variance is predictable from a linear combination of age, sex and attitude data.