Determining the best population-level alcohol consumption model and its impact on estimates of alcohol-attributable harms

Kehoe, Tara; Gmel, Gerrit; Shield, Kevin D; Gmel, Gerhard; Rehm, Jürgen

doi:10.1186/1478-7954-10-6

Population Health Metrics

Table 4 Mean and standard deviation estimates from the empirical data, Log-Normal model, Gamma model, and the Weibull model for alcohol consumption of men from 41 datasets

From: Determining the best population-level alcohol consumption model and its impact on estimates of alcohol-attributable harms

	Empirical data			Log-Normal model		Gamma model		Weibull model
Country	Count	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation	Mean	Standard deviation
Argentina	359	16.26	21.80	25.79	102.88	16.26	20.29	16.29	22.18
Australia	882	12.63	15.09	21.31	86.21	12.63	15.40	12.73	16.58
Austria	2697	26.23	26.25	27.23	33.35	26.23	22.75	26.35	23.43
Belize	957	22.52	41.05	26.19	83.46	22.31	29.00	21.51	31.79
Brazil	325	20.78	37.89	35.81	265.46	20.78	31.27	20.16	37.64
Canada	4833	16.09	24.60	19.65	50.51	16.02	18.62	15.84	19.82
Costa Rica	285	11.47	18.97	17.91	101.55	11.47	16.42	11.30	19.36
Czech Republic	1121	29.19	32.98	43.56	137.44	29.19	33.67	29.27	35.28
Denmark	865	17.68	21.18	21.03	39.93	17.68	17.87	17.66	18.42
ECAS: Finland	462	16.53	21.56	18.48	32.09	16.53	16.60	16.49	17.32
ECAS: France	415	19.75	28.51	26.44	74.41	19.66	22.69	19.55	23.98
ECAS: Germany	328	13.81	19.83	16.65	36.89	13.81	15.06	13.73	15.76
ECAS: Italy	434	18.06	19.09	24.71	61.39	18.06	19.33	18.08	19.57
ECAS: Sweden	449	11.77	17.59	13.28	26.13	11.77	12.60	11.66	13.29
ECAS: UK	361	34.95	54.61	40.33	85.07	33.62	35.83	33.48	37.34
Finland	864	12.88	17.32	18.14	53.44	12.88	14.83	12.84	15.63
France	4697	22.24	25.21	24.83	47.92	22.24	23.72	22.18	24.67
Germany	3510	18.79	20.74	24.77	58.38	18.79	20.00	18.79	20.45
Hungary	991	9.38	15.16	15.50	78.87	9.38	12.68	9.25	14.34
Iceland	1013	9.42	11.04	11.18	21.62	9.42	9.63	9.40	9.94
India	498	34.82	54.78	63.16	417.87	34.20	48.65	34.40	58.26
Ireland	385	37.82	43.73	42.23	73.86	37.82	38.19	37.74	39.61
Isle of Man	420	24.90	36.39	45.31	217.60	24.64	31.15	24.77	34.16
Israel	2005	10.59	19.71	15.91	89.50	10.59	15.30	10.19	17.71
Italy	1429	20.98	19.35	26.89	56.90	20.98	21.39	20.98	21.13
Japan	1009	18.51	25.29	55.72	605.09	18.51	26.33	19.42	32.43
Kazakhstan	401	20.55	40.31	30.49	139.45	20.27	27.31	19.50	30.13
Mexico	1833	15.48	30.37	23.46	141.72	15.37	22.60	14.86	26.61
Netherlands	1679	17.47	18.78	19.46	33.31	17.47	17.46	17.46	17.89
Nicaragua	263	22.26	40.29	24.27	73.44	22.26	29.25	21.16	31.91
Nigeria	439	33.63	45.76	58.17	279.62	33.38	43.19	33.66	48.39
Norway	945	11.78	19.42	14.67	38.42	11.78	13.70	11.59	14.57
Peru	425	6.76	15.68	6.10	10.43	6.76	7.75	6.42	8.24
Spain	603	20.44	24.47	29.64	84.47	20.44	22.74	20.43	23.56
Sri Lanka	323	21.87	43.99	39.56	426.76	21.65	35.42	20.87	45.74
Sweden	2348	6.49	9.17	7.30	15.79	6.49	7.30	6.42	7.74
Switzerland	5126	18.55	24.86	20.15	32.01	18.54	18.09	18.50	19.05
Uganda	378	42.93	52.50	78.02	382.06	42.80	54.76	43.42	61.01
Uruguay	305	18.32	34.55	29.22	154.64	18.16	25.14	17.75	28.56
USA 2	1499	13.51	24.00	17.81	75.66	13.51	18.62	13.12	21.16
USA 3	2300	14.18	32.43	19.12	95.29	13.93	19.95	13.20	22.54

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