Social, demographic and behavioral determinants of alcohol consumption

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[Introduction ...] In this paper, we are interested in whether the likelihood of an individual being an alcohol abuser can be predicted by some of descriptive socio-demographic factors such as age, marital status, smoking habits, education, employment status, income and municipality size. Unlike for other studies, which tend to assess the importance of an individual predictor disregarding possible influence of other individual characteristics, we let all descriptive variables enter a single logistic regression. Only this way, we can properly assess their individual strength in defining propensity an individual’s propensity to heavy binge drinking. [...]

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IES Working Paper ; No. 10/2015

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mikolasek, Jakub
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
• (where): Prague
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/120450
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