Table 3

Proportion of respondents consuming alcoholic beverages at least once a week, by gender, country and age group

Type of alcohol and age group (y)		Men			Women
Type of alcohol and age group (y)		Estonia %	Latvia %		Lithuania %	Estonia %	Latvia %	Lithuania %
Any type of alcohol
All	60.5	41.3	55.3^3-165	25.5	8.2	14.1^3-165
19–34	66.0	45.1	64.9^3-165	35.3	13.5	20.3^3-165
35–49	63.4	47.4	56.6^3-165	26.6	8.9	15.2^3-165
50–64	43.5	31.2	41.2^3-160	7.7	3.8	7.1^3-150
Beer
All	49.2	33.2	48.4^3-165	15.8	4.6	9.0^3-165
19–34	59.2	38.8	61.4^3-165	23.1	6.5	13.4^3-165
35–49	47.2	35.0	48.7^3-165	16.5	5.6	9.1^3-165
50–64	31.0	25.8	31.3	2.6	2.4	4.8
Wine
All	9.5	3.7	9.7^3-165	9.7	2.9	6.6^3-165
19–34	11.1	3.3	10.6^3-165	13.1	6.8	10.9^3-150
35–49	9.7	4.3	12.0^3-160	11.2	1.5	6.1^3-165
50–64	6.0	3.4	5.5	1.8	1.3	3.3
Spirits
All	28.4	16.6	21.3^3-165	9.3	2.7	2.6^3-165
19–34	27.2	14.0	20.6^3-165	10.9	4.1	1.7^3-165
35–49	31.3	22.1	25.5^3-150	10.6	3.6	3.4^3-165
50–64	26.1	13.2	16.5^3-165	4.7	0.9	2.5^3-160

↵3-150 Significant variations among countries within the gender specific age group, p<0.05;
↵3-160 p<0.01;
↵3-165 p<0.001.