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DATA IDENTIFICATION
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Name
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Harmful use of alcohol defined according to the national context as alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) within a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol
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Indicator purpose
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Indicator of alcohol exposure in populations and key indicator for estimation of alcohol-attributable disease burden and alcohol-attributable deaths.
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Abstract
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Total alcohol per capita consumption (APC) is defined as the total (sum of recorded APC three-year average and unrecorded APC as a proportion of total) amount of alcohol consumed per adult (15+ years) over a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol, adjusted for tourist consumption. Recorded alcohol consumption refers to official statistics at country level (production, import, export, and sales or taxation data), while the unrecorded alcohol consumption refers to alcohol which is not taxed and is outside the usual system of governmental control, such as home or informally produced alcohol (legal or illegal), smuggled alcohol, surrogate alcohol (which is alcohol not intended for human consumption), or alcohol obtained through cross-border shopping (which is recorded in a different jurisdiction).
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Data source
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Ministry of Health
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DATA CHARACTERISTICS
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Contact organization person
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Ministry of Health
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Date last updated
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25-SEP-2019
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Periodicity
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Annual
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Unit of measure
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Sum of recorded APC three-year average and unrecorded APC as a proportion of total
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Other characteristics
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Alcohol consumption can have an impact not only on the incidence of diseases, injuries and other health conditions, but also on the course of disorders and their outcomes in individuals. Alcohol consumption has been identified as a component cause for more than 200 diseases, injuries and other health conditions.
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DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS
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Classification used
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Recorded alcohol per capita (15+) consumption of pure alcohol is calculated as the sum of beverage specific alcohol consumption of pure alcohol (beer, wine, spirits, other) from different sources.
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Disaggregation
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is by sex, and by age.
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Key statistical concepts
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SDG 3.5.2 = (The sum of the amount of recorded alcohol consumed per capita (15+ years), average during three calendar years, in litres of pure alcohol, and the amount of unrecorded alcohol per capita consumption (15+ years), during a calendar year, in litres of pure alcohol, adjusted for tourist consumption.) / (Midyear resident population (15+ years) for the same calendar year, UN World Population Prospects, medium variant.)
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Formula
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OTHER ASPECTS
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Recommended uses
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This indicator is to be used by policy makers and for alcohol consumption reduction efforts. Relevant stakeholders including school authorities need to take strategic action against harmful use of alcohol especially among adolescents.
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Limitations
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N/A
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Other comments
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All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.