@article{ref1,
title="Drinking and acquisition of unrecorded alcohol across educational groups in Sweden",
journal="Drug and alcohol review",
year="2021",
author="Norström, Thor and Landberg, Jonas and Trolldal, Bjorn",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: It is estimated that 18.5% of total alcohol consumption in Sweden in 2018 was unrecorded. However, little is known about the socio-economic profile of consumers of unrecorded alcohol. The aim of this study was to elucidate this issue by analysing data from a unique Swedish national repeated cross-sectional alcohol use survey. <br><br>METHODS: Individual-level information on alcohol consumption and socio-economic status (SES) for the years 2013-2018 was retrieved from the Monitoring Project; a nationally representative monthly alcohol use survey. The analytical sample comprised 64 375 respondents aged 25-74 years. SES was measured by educational level. We used three educational groups: (i) low (<10 years); (ii) intermediate (10-12 years); and (iii) high (13+ years). We included indicators of the following sources of unrecorded alcohol consumption: travellers' import, smuggled alcohol, home production, internet and illicit home-distilling. We estimated adjusted SES-specific means of the various forms of unrecorded consumption. The means were adjusted for the effects of age, sex and region. <br><br>RESULTS: There were no significant educational differences in the total of unrecorded alcohol consumption; the same holds true for home-production and internet. However, with respect to smuggled and home-distilling, a statistically significant educational gradient was observed with the lowest educational group scoring approximately four times higher than the highest. <br><br>DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that there are no differences across educational groups in the consumption of unrecorded alcohol as a whole. However, consumption of smuggled alcohol and illicitly distilled spirits is elevated in the low educational group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-5236",
doi="10.1111/dar.13304",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13304"
}