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The tail of the alcohol consumption distribution
Author(s) -
Skog OleJørgen
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1993.tb02072.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , alcohol consumption , distribution (mathematics) , alcohol , econometrics , heavy drinking , demographic economics , environmental health , statistics , environmental science , mathematics , psychology , economics , medicine , biology , sociology , mathematical analysis , social science , biochemistry
The consumption containment rate (CCR), proposed by Taylor as a way of characterizing the upper tail of the alcohol consumption distribution, is analyzed and estimated from a collection of data sets from different countries. It is found that CCR curves for different countries are highly different at low consumption levels. However, at high consumption levels, they are remarkably similar across cultures. It is proposed that this may be due to cross‐cultural similarities in heavy drinking careers.